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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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Geological CO₂ Storage: Massive Scale, Hidden Risks, Eternal Monitoring - CleanTechnica (cleantechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Also a geologist, I know there are smart people working on this stuff but I've also heard from folks that the modern carbon sequestration solutions are largely a grift.

Scalability is a big problem to tackle for sure and I largely agree that carbon sequestration should not be our number one solution to pollution. It infuriates me to no end that these things aren't even solved problems and yet still touted as reasons why we can keep pumping oil and gas and building pipelines.