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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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[–] drkt@scribe.disroot.org 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ho no someone glue themselves to the street I used daily, I’ll run into him or shot him because he is a crazy radical and not me (sarcasm)

[–] cmhe@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

If we take the goal for long term stability of a civil society as the normal, then many current economic, civil and environmental policies are very radical.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago

Of course. The very phrase "Just Stop Oil" is a radically extremist expression. Stopping oil is making a big change that addresses the root of the problem, i.e. it's radical. It's the extremist version of the more moderate "slow down oil a little" approaches that dominate politics.

[–] heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago

It's still peaceful protesting. Anything more radical would be labeled eco-terrorism

[–] kbal@fedia.io 3 points 2 days ago

the only radical thing a person could be doing right now is ignoring it.

Wait, what? I knew these people didn't know what "radical" means — but what on earth do they actually think it does mean?

[–] DriftingLynx@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Nope, but the capitalist class and their enforcement goons want to paint them that way. Makes it easier to violate their rights.