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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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How an antacid for the ocean could cool the Earth | A new technology promises to remove carbon from the atmosphere and prevent ocean acidification. (wapo.st)
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[–] mehdi_benadel@lemmy.balamb.fr 8 points 3 days ago

Did they think about the consequences?? There's more life in the ocean than on land...

[–] janNatan@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 days ago

Ah... crushing rocks, the new technology.

[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago

If they are really thinking of this it’s already too late and I would just give up. Society can do a lot better but this is just a symptom of failure. You can’t just tell a trillion dollar industry to stop making money after 100 years of letting them walk all over everyone. Climate change will always be a symptom of our shitty economy allowing less than 0.01% in control of everything.