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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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There's overwhelming US support for action on our climate. Why that hasn't mattered. (www.msnbc.com)
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[–] neanderthal 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's really pretty simple. We have made it socially acceptable to do nothing and awkward to talk about it. Deniers need to be given the same response as someone making a racist comment or joke: "Not cool! The effects IPCC predicted as worst case, years ago, is happening! This almost getting to the point of flat earth!"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The most proactive action I've seen is people glueing themselves to roads. Didn't I hear in the old days they'd blow up oil pipelines, or was that just in the movies?

[–] neanderthal 5 points 1 year ago

Maybe we should all just start riding bikes and wearing MAGA shirts and other GOP dog whistles to dissuade coal rollers and such? Eventually the MAGA crowd will see their own riding bikes and think it was their idea. Cities will then be forced to build bike infrastructure.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

there was a movie called "how to blow up a pipeline" in which the protagonists did exactly that, and groups like the ELF existed. I agree that these weird get yourself arrested plans are dumb