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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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Offsetting has been hailed as a fix for runaway emissions and climate change—but the market’s largest firm sold millions of credits for carbon reductions that weren’t real. (www.newyorker.com)
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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The problem is that a number of countries and sub-national governments set up carbon trading schemes, and they ended up full of fraudulent offsets. There's a lot of discussion about it right now because people are trying to figure out what to do about that.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

Thats due to offsets and you can just kick them out of your emissions scheme like with the EU ETS

[–] Talaraine@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I'm.... not the brightest person in the world but the very first time I heard of companies buying carbon credits that would cure their pollution the alarm bells went off.

I guess the politicians that fall for this kind of crap put the 'whale' in whale phishing.