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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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Documents, Whistleblowers, and Public Comments Are Clear: Oil Companies Know Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution (drilled.media)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Also keep this in mind when a company claims to be powered by 100% renewable energy. For example AWS claims their Ashburn facility (US-East-1) is 100% Renewable but that's total horse shit. The grid they're on doesn't get enough of its production from renewables for Amazon to to that. They're just buying carbon credits for all the shit our corporations and government run on their hardware.

I'm getting to a point where it's my belief that if you can't host stuff yourself at home, you shouldn't be trusting the cloud to host it because all you're doing is paying someone to kill our planet for us. AI, Crypto, certain AAA gaming titles, all of them unethical

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

At least they bought carbon credits, which means some green energy producer elsewhere got a subsidy

Fix the energy production sector and you'll fix the pollution

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Gods I wish. The offsets program is mostly green-washing. Relevant Climate Town video

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Exactly. They're paying some guy in India to say he planted a tree.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The whole carbon-credits market is riddled with fraud. It's just another free-marketeers' wet dream that's unworkable in real life.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago

And central steering is prone to corruption. What do you propose then?