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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I’ve always thought it’d be useful to pursue just as a backstop: you set a carbon tax to whatever the cost of sucking the co2 back out is, and then you have net zero.

I guess it’d have to be introduced slowly to 1. Give them time to develop lower costs before bankrupting literally everyone and 2. Reduce the shock of painfully high carbon tax, and give everyone time to jump for cheaper alternatives. But it feels like the closest to a proper solution that I can imagine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Yeah but venture capitalists can't make money off of it if they don't! Think of the share holders!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

hey, kill the planet more because it's too expensive not too. Sound logic....

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

What are we trying to cheap out here m

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

So it's a way?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

And, besides everything mentioned, it would create several mountains and hills (from all that solid state carbon).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's like addressing a wound by mopping up all the blood and injecting it back into your body. Good luck.

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