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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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In Silicon Valley, a Rogue Plan to Alter the Climate | Some restless entrepreneurs are releasing pollutants in the sky to try to cool the planet. (www.nytimes.com)
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[โ€“] modifier@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I haven't finished it yet, but Neal Stephenson's newest book Termination Shock deals with this exact concept, from what i can tell.

[โ€“] silence7 7 points 2 months ago

It does, but importantly, it's fiction. So it raises some (but not all ) of the relevant issues, but doesn't necessarily present a realistic view of how things will play out.

More would involve some serious spoilers.

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