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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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Companies have still drawn down only enough CO2 to cancel out a few hours of US emissions. Here’s what it will take to really scale up the sector. (www.technologyreview.com)
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[–] orioler25@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Y'all, they're never going to adopt a solution that works. Climate change mitigation is an existential threat to capitalism because it would force the recognition of any imperative other than profit and infinite growth; it is infact antithetical to them.

[–] Part4@infosec.pub 3 points 1 day ago

Capitalism evolved out of feudalism in large part due to the availability of fossil fuels. The claim is that capitalism is necessary to manage scarcity, in fact capitalism evolved in the greatest period of wealth humankind will likely ever know. Fossil fuels power capitalism. It is the system that evolved to turn fossil fuels into wealth for the richest.

We could have a currency backed by carbon emissions, which we could use to ration fossil fuel use, but, well, we won't.

[–] zd9@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Sounds like... for the sake of the world we need to remove the existential threat of capitalism in the first place. Cut out the tumor completely.