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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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Occidential Petroleum Quietly Ditched the World’s Biggest Carbon Capture Plant | The plant never operated at more than a third of its capacity in the 13 years it’s been running (www.bloomberg.com)
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[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is, but not industrial types of it. You basicly use plants and make sure they do not rot ones they die. Stuff like planting trees and turn them into coal, which you then throw into an old coal mine. The best ones would be algae. The most like way the PETM ended was by having algae grow in the artic, which then died due to frost and sunk to the bottom of the sea to form oil and gas.

Basicly we need to put fossil fuels back under the ground. That could be done on some scale, but unless we stop extracting them first, it is pretty useless. However long term it is a decent option to reduce carbon in the atosphere.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I've noticed that the latest fossil fuel propaganda tactic is "No, wait, don't regulate us, industrial carbon capture will totally save us, bro, just wait and see, it's the only real solution to climate change, bro, I swear."

It's mystifying to me that oil companies are actually Saturday morning cartoon villain levels of stupidly evil.