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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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The Problems With Carbon Offsets Are Even Bigger Than You Might Think | They’re supposed to fight climate change. But climate change is coming for them too. (slate.com)
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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Recycling is highly variable by material.

It really happens with steel scrap, and makes a meaningful difference.

It's plastic where it's marketed as a thing but doesn't really happen except with a few percent of production.

[–] n3m37h@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

Yeah plastics is what I was referring to mainly. Worked in a recycling sorting facility and yeah, it wasn't pretty.

[–] Nougat@kbin.social 8 points 9 months ago

Even that few percent, I bet a vanishingly small amount is post-consumer. They’re mainly taking the trimmed waste from molding and putting it back into the production line.