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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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Corporations invested in carbon offsets that were ‘likely junk’, analysis says (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] paf0@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Not surprising. The entire idea is kind of dumb to begin with. Sure, let's not make any meaningful reduction in our emissions and attempt to pay someone to clean up our pollution instead. If anything there should be a carbon tax that goes toward verified programs. There is no way having corporations randomly throw money at grifters will ever work out.