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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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The EU Just Kicked Off Its Biggest Climate Experiment Yet [Carbon tariff] (www.wired.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

One of the issues with carbon credits is they can be bought and sold. So if my company is more efficient, they can sell their remaining carbon credits to some other company which ends up polluting more.

Carbon credits are basically a fine for polluting. If you can pay the fine, it’s business as usual.

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

Yeah a lot of Tesla's revenue is selling carbon credits because their processes are less polluting. They make ungodly amounts of money by doing this.

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

Which makes the environmentaly friendly company more profitable - encouraging others to do the same.

As more and more companies do this, the number of credits can be reduced to increase their price and keep the total emissions on a downward trend.