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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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'Wood vaulting': A simple climate solution you’ve probably never heard of (grist.org)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Why not just stack the wood in arid places though?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Fire.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Sink it in the deep ocean then, let's see it burn there!!! Wait, what do you mean wood floats? Bah, details!

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

You have to first carve the wood into wooden ducks. Since wood and ducks both float, this cancels out their buoyancy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Rocks are plentiful. Strap rocks to the logs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yea that makes sense

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