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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] 1 points 1 year ago

Millions of people starving in third-world countries will in no way make wealthy business executives feel "responsible" for what they're doing. They don't care about that. So if you want these companies held responsible, letting mass deaths happen isn't going to do it.

Frankly even if it would make them feel "responsible" it's a monstrous thing to allow to happen if you have any way of stopping it. IMO the people who oppose geoengineering research because they want greenhouse gas emissions to cause megadeaths are as out of touch with humanity as the executives they claim to hate.