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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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Conspiracy Theorists and Vaccine Skeptics Have a New Target: Geoengineering | Around the country, people with a deep distrust of government want to preemptively ban the use of aerosols to reduce heat (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] ecoenginefutures@slrpnk.net 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, they might be against it for the wrong reasons, but it would be better if we tried to fix the climate without aerosol…

[–] hotelbravo722@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Agreed geoengineering is bad science/engineering IMO. You can't know what the long term effects would be until after its been deployed. The safest bet would be to just ditch fossil fuels but that's not as sexy.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 4 points 1 month ago

Also, we already have examples of tech bros creating a business where companies pay them to offset their carbon footprint by shooting unknown chemicals of unknown quantities into the upper atmosphere.

[–] No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

We had chemtrails for so long that at.thia point getting 'fogged' will change absolutely nothing now that all the frogs are gay.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 1 month ago

They're trying to make this the new recycling aren't they... Pitching an idea that seemingly would work, and feels like we're doing something without actually addressing the problem

When the media starts over focusing on something odd, it's because billionaires have an agenda