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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 removal isn’t weird anymore. That worries scientists. (www.eenews.net)
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[–] [email protected] 48 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It is very simple. If companies want to use air carbon removal, they should be forced to do that for all of their emissions. No cheap carbon credits, but real proper removal. I am fully aware that that costs $500/t or so, but that happens to be the real carbon price.

If they do have a problem with that then they can always stop emitting.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

It seems like if a company was actually going to try to remove all carbon that they emitted, it'd be a HELL of a lot easier to just capture emissions directly at the major sources and capture it then. For things like power plants and refineries that's a lot fewer sources to filter than the entire atmosphere.