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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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Can We Alter the Ocean to Counter Climate Change Faster? This Experiment Aims to Find Out (insideclimatenews.org)
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[โ€“] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It sounds good, and long-term it's a nice tool to have, but it's nowhere near fast or effective enough to counter even a fraction of actual emissions. This is a "we're basically already at net zero and now we can start trying to recover" tool. Not a "Yay, we can keep burning!" tool.

[โ€“] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago

I agree with you. Let's do all the measures and then some more. I'm just a bit fed up with doing nothing and then cry.