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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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Oil and gas industry needs to let go of carbon capture as solution to climate change, IEA says (www.cnbc.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why would they have a solution? They are the problem. Carbon capture is the dream that we can continue the way we did but without the bad feeling. Not gonna happen. We can't Deus ex machina ourselves out of this shit. We have to work and make sacrifices.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

We have to work and make sacrifices.

Most importantly we have to find a new ideology go make lessen the wrap of capitalism on the world.

Current outlook is only making it worse until suffering is inevitable.

But even then our economy gets affected in a negative way and "growing our way out" is also in the future not sustainable.