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As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world. About 1C of total warming. Second chart: about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability. Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases. About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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"Shameful": Shell uses suspect carbon credits to meet climate targets | Shell offset part of its emissions with over a million credits from Chinese projects suspended because of integrity concerns (www.climatechangenews.com)
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[โ€“] Nobody@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Carbon credits aren't a bad idea on paper, but modern businesses can sleaze up and corrupt systems at a level that's hard to anticipate.

[โ€“] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 2 points 9 months ago

Not at all. The problem is the offset part of many of those systems. The better way of doing it is to force companies do buy credits when they emit and those credits are supplied by the government and limited in number. Every year you decrease the number of credits and the cheapest technology to replace is replaced. That works pretty well in the EU.