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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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Geoengineering Test Quietly Launches Salt Crystals into Atmosphere (www.scientificamerican.com)
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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What’s the worst that can happen.

I mean, at this point, we're cruising full speed in that direction. Willy-nilly experiments to just throw shit at the wall and see if anything sticks is all we can really count on. We're well passed the point of doing this the easy way.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it would be nice to stop fucking up things further

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Alright, we'll just put that over here in the pile of solutions that definitely totally will really happen.

I think we should continue looking into other options in the meantime, though, just in case that doesn't pan out for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Aren't there some pretty definitive things that can be done... they're just not cost-feasible for the people in charge.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Absolutely, but no one with the means to do those things has the will to, so the rest of us are left scrambling for a plan B. We're on our last few laps around the drain - we need major interventions if we're going to stop ourselves from going down.

Preserving the environment is no longer a good reason to not experiment on it, cuz if we stay the course it's fucked anyway. It's already broken beyond our current options to repair it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They're cost feasible, they're just not profitable enough supposedly (though in a lot of cases, I think that's also probably more or less bullshit, companies just don't want to adapt).