sarahschoengart
- New study on linking wealth-based emissions to climate impacts: We find that 2/3 of global warming is attributable to the wealthiest 10% and so are climate extremes. Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @iiasa.ac.at, @usyseth.bsky.social 1/
- So what did we do? We combine wealth-based GHG inequality assessments from @wid.world and @lucaschancel.bsky.social with an emulator modelling framework to systematically attribute changes in global temperature and grid-cell-level climate extremes to emissions from different wealth groups. 2/
- The richest 10% of people worldwide contributed to about two-thirds of global warming since 1990, and the top 1% alone about one-fifth. If the entire world had emitted like the bottom 50%, there would have been minimal warming since 1990. Lot more in there (check out this figure) 👇 3/
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View full threadBig thanks to an amazing team: Zeb Nicholls, @carlschleussner.bsky.social, @setupelz.bsky.social, @romanhoffmann.bsky.social
