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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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Geoengineers think they can slow climate change. The catch? No more blue skies. (link.houstonchronicle.com)
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[–] Ooops@kbin.social 41 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Sure... we can totally invent a hundred different solutions soon™ that mean we can just keep burning fossil fuels like we really, really want to.

Okay... they will actually never work and we will irreversibly damage our planet. But that's okay, because the people telling you those fairy tales will have made a lot of money by then. And that's also worth something, isn't it?

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I have to wonder how this would impact fossil fuel competitors like solar and wind, given that both are driven by the sun. I'm sure these rich bastards would love to kill two birds with one stone.

[–] Ooops@kbin.social 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Shit. I hadn't even considered making solar less viable as a side effect, too...

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

Wind is largely driven by the sun too, so it's something to consider.

[–] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

It's fine though, we already have the solution. Basically. I mean, I've marked it in my calendar, so we're basically halfway there already. Now get off my back about all the CO2 pollution we get rich off.