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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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Food banks have long prevented emissions. Now they're getting into the carbon credit business. (grist.org)
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To stay afloat, food banks in the Global South are considering selling controversial offsets for revenue.

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[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 17 points 3 days ago

It’s not an offset if there’s no new carbon mitigation happening; you shouldn’t be able to claim already existing behavior as an offset

[–] karashta@sopuli.xyz 14 points 3 days ago

Carbon offsets are the biggest scam.

Whoever came up with the idea should be staked out in the sun in the new highest temperature every year.

[–] abcdqfr@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Edward corn hands