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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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[–] Philing_Good@lemmy.world 40 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If your rich and you pollute, it's "fine".

If your poor and you pollute, "what a dick"

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

If you're rich and commit a crime, that's an inconsequential fine.

If you're poor and commit a crime, that's crippling debt or jail time.

[–] null@slrpnk.net 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I vote we start calling them Carbon Indulgences.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

why does that make me crave chocolate?

[–] GONADS125@lemm.ee 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I can't believe how many people are just now realizing carbon offsets are a sham..

Hasn't anyone watched King of the Hill!?

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you search on YouTube "carbon offsets", the first result is the piece John Oliver did, which if you haven't watched i really recommend you to.

Carbon Offsets

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

I always liken it to the anti-child/slave labor movement in the late 90s. Companies learned if they just sub-subcontract, they can use child and/or slave labor and just keep saying, “[GAP] vociferously objects to slave and child labor. And through our rigorous internal investigation, we have found that a company we hired has in turn hired a company that was participating in this disgusting act. We have officially severed ties with the contractor which so profoundly failed in their quality control and, in [GAP’s] humble opinion, in their morality.”

[GAP] spits on the idea of slave labor pointedly

camera flashes, press murmurs as spokesperson leaves stand

[GAP] hires the contractor under their new LLC and continues profiting from slave labor

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

She should just directly fund new wind and solar energy non-profits.

[–] djquadratic@kbin.social 16 points 10 months ago

Funny article title. Skimmed it - raised good points about some of general pitfalls of carbon offset

[–] MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I have recently begun to think that all the super-rich are high on cocaine all the time. And that is solely based off of what I see on the internet.

outbound photo on reddit of bezos and current wife looking like super villains

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Interestingly, I’m pretty sure she got that “dress” (really, it’s panties and a corset with a mesh dress over top) on Amazon. I saw nearly the same thing just today. It was $25 and listed as a rave costume.

So your drug hypothesis is supported so far….

(Yes yes, I know it’s not actually the same thing, but it might as well be… normal people wouldn’t go out wherever in that..)

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago

"carbon offsets" brought to you by the people who sold you "a calorie is a calorie"

[–] Pietson@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Always had the feeling there was something fishy about these carbon offset programmes. It just doesn't seem like a problem that can be solved by throwing more cash at it. Sad to hear this is indeed the case for most of these companies.

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I think everyone should watch he John Oliver piece about it.

Carbon offsets

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 10 months ago

Yeah, it takes having buyer and seller wanting to prevent emissions and using a third party auditor to verify. What we actually have is buyer and seller colluding with auditors to produce PR instead of emissions cuts