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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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Carbon credits are supposed to funnel money to poor countries. Do they? (grist.org)
submitted 11 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/climate@slrpnk.net
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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

No

[–] FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago

Did anyone seriously thought carbon credits helped poor nations? The only purpose of those is for companies to avoid regulations and stick a carbon neutral sticker on themselves while fucking up the planet.

[–] captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org 4 points 11 months ago

Carbon credits funnel money to poor people as well as tax exempt status for churches funnels money to poor people. In that, not at all if rich people can help it.