Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
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:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
Carbon offsetting isn't a solution. There needs to be less CO2 emissions. Offsetting doesn't make up for it.
Burning a trees worth of fossil fuel in a minute can be offset by planting a sapling that takes 20 years to consume that doesn't make up for the damage done. That's 20 years before your CO2 is compensated for.
During those 20 years that CO2 is melting ice caps causing more heat absorption heating the planet further.
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.
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.