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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 world is warming faster than scientists expected | Fossil fuel groups and investors cannot afford to ignore the warnings (www.ft.com)
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[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. All I had in my mind was, as these trends continue to worsen, flashes of mobs at the gates of these fuckers’ mansions. If we want a shred of a snowball’s chance in hell of righting the ship, we need this anger to overflow, like, right now. Not only after we’ve started starving.

[–] hex_m_hell@slrpnk.net 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Basically...

"This serial killer should feel remorse." Ok... But he doesn't because he's a hedonistic nihilist who lives off the suffering of others. You can't reason with that because you don't actually have any bargaining power except violence.

Stop trying to pretend that these people care about the survival of humanity. They knew about this, they built their oil rigs taller to account for it. The oil industry and humanity are now locked in a zero sum game: one survives or the other, it cannot be both.

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Maybe you misunderstood me? Or maybe you responded to the wrong person? All I said was “we need the collective anger at what these people have done to us to become active right now. We need to storm their mansions with overwhelming force.” I never said I expected these remorseless killers to change or feel remorse. I said we need to deal with them all in a mass guillotine party.

[–] hex_m_hell@slrpnk.net 1 points 7 months ago

Oh yeah, I was agreeing, just didn't really communicate it super well.