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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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[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 days ago (6 children)

What I'm saying is its ridiculous to be overly scared of potential solutions, or parts thereof. Too scared to even allow the testing is contemptably too scared for survival, and as malicious to the rest of us as those billionaires who want most of us to die.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Overly scared

A curious term. We knew what we had to do a long time ago, but didn't.

Now that we're on a likely terminal path, we're suddenly willing to try unknown, unproven radical treatments and the only comfort we have is that without such radical interventions we're already dead, so there is very little left to lose.

Edit: I'm not so much against SRM as I am disapointed we didn't do the right things when we could have.

Well, I feel better now don't you?

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

we’re suddenly willing to try unknown, unproven radical treatments

Who;s that "we"? Do you have a mouse in your pocket?

Nobody asked me, or any of us. It's just another top-down phony "solution" pushed by the fossll-fuel industry to deflect attention from stopping greenhouse pollution at its source.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Well no. It's actually a desperate hail mary. Everything is an excuse to keep oil going, but SRM is legitimate science. Just reckless as fuck.

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