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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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Carbon storage is becoming a more mainstream climate solution. A new study says that we won’t have enough room to bury all our CO2 (www.washingtonpost.com)
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[–] zd9@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

CCS has only been proposed by Exxon and others at a very small scale, purely for marketing purposes, so they can say they are helping to capture carbon dioxide and help the climate. It's just like the "how can you reduce your individual footprint" stuff, where the real answer is "vote out the corrupt politicians owned by Big Oil, and force oil executives to face consequences for what they've done to the planet". Dropping this here, please share.