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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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Climate activists sentenced for red powder attack on US Constitution (thehill.com)
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[–] chaos@beehaw.org 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Maybe there's a third option besides "do something ineffectual that most people will find annoying, offensive, and unrelated to climate change" and "completely resign ourselves to a climate disaster" that we can try?

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm all ears. This shit's not working, the bad guys are winning, collecting their profits, while the world we all live in is being destroyed...

[–] chaos@beehaw.org 0 points 6 days ago

It's a dire situation and progress isn't nearly fast enough, but progress is getting made. The answer, as ever, isn't satisfying because it's boring and difficult: continue to organize and apply pressure to those in power to take action, and raise awareness by pointing to how it affects people in their own lives. This stunt does neither of those things, and if anything, makes our side look whiny and out of touch.