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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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Is Carbon Capture Cause for Hope? a new facility to suck carbon out of the air shows why it's more complicated than that. (newrepublic.com)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Realized carbon storage efficiency is abysmal: typically -25% of estimates, and highly variable, and that's before you factor in the economics. You don't get anything tangible from CCS, either.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Trees are pretty good at carbon capture :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Trees are sadly inefficient for the scales we need. I'm not saying we should cut down more trees or stop planting them, but it will take much more than that to get us out of the hole we've dug ourselves into.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I don't think there's a reasonable way out of this hole, but I'd rather be in a world with more forest, so I'll keep suggesting that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

While this is true, we only tend to plant monocultures.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Very true. A forest is definitely preferable