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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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Dutch police use water cannon, detain 2,400 climate activists (www.aljazeera.com)
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Democracy at work.

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[–] mambabasa@slrpnk.net 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh so instead of decisive action on the climate crisis, they'll just criminalize climate activism. Democracy at work. Noted.

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Tyranny of the majority.

[–] Ataraxia@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I mean, if people stop having kids you solve two problems so we are really on the right path already.