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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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UK Considers Delaying Some Carbon Capture Projects as Costs Soar (www.bloomberg.com)
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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

Sorry. We would have tried to save the planet, but. Y’know. Money.

Sorry everyone. About the extinction.

[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Carbon capture is a joke. It's another stall tactic. And a very dangerous one at that. Shut the damn things down instead, and watch how many things get done that -would- have taken until 2035 or 2050.