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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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‘Climate Delusion’ Or Vital Solution? Carbon Capture’s Uphill Battle (www.noemamag.com)
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Industrial carbon capture is a climate strategy environmentalists love to hate. Those committed to its development are trying to win back allies they sorely need.

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[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's fine for research, but there is no point scaling anything because it can't work. The physics won't allow you to capture carbon for less energy than you gained from it's combustion. It's fraudulent.

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anything must be tried

Like ending all fossil fuel use...