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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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The Problems With Carbon Offsets Are Even Bigger Than You Might Think | They’re supposed to fight climate change. But climate change is coming for them too. (slate.com)
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[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

I always liken it to the sub-sub contracting retail giants finally did during the 90s and Jenny mccarthy’s crusade against child and slave labor.

These same retailers kept getting caught using unsafe factories in developing countries with children and people suffering basically indentured servitude. So, they came up with the idea to, basically, change the name.

They shoved the responsibility onto someone else—someone they hired specifically to shoulder the blame. So these fly by night companies would be “cut out” of the process when GAP was caught using child slaves again. “We conducted our own investigation and found the culprit to be ‘Downstream Company 7’ and we have severed ties with DS7.” And then a few months later, “We conducted our own investigation and found the culprit to be ‘Downstream Company 8’ and we have severed ties with DS8.”

They’re continuing on with business as usual because business relies on those low costs and zero accountability. This is all carbon credits are. “We have conducted our own investigation and found that ‘Carbon Offsetter 1’ didn’t plant any of the 8,982,758 trees needed to offset our emissions. We have cut ties with CO1.”

It’s all a shell game. They don’t give a shit about offsetting their emissions. They give a shit about profit and greenwashing. And they’re doing both.