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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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[–] kozy138@lemm.ee 55 points 1 year ago (14 children)

I honestly believe blocking roads the most effective way to protest in today's society.

It's one of the few ways that's dreamed "illegal" to protest. And most governments will do anything in it's power to clear the roads, including imprison people.

People need to realize that being late to work doesn't actually matter, but the state of the climate does. We need more road blocks. Some without people too, just barricades.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Only retort is that it's potentially dangerous.

[–] kozy138@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only because of all the cars, which is part of what they're protesting against.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Obviously?

You just posted "the cars are the dangerous thing on the road" as if I needed to read that?

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