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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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[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If only 10% are real, then you just need to buy 1000% offsets!

[–] silence7 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Problem is that the more fraudulent offsets you buy, the more that get created to fill the demand for them. You can't buy your way out of this problem.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

With enough money and oversight, you could probably could just make your own carbon offset program. How to do the accounting is inherently tricky though. If you bought up a bunch of land and planted trees there where there is none, but it was land that was going to be used for that same purpose or for a solar farm or wind turbines anyways, you didn't really do anything except maybe start a month earlier.

[–] silence7 1 points 7 months ago

Yes proving additionality is hard.