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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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As record heat risks bleaching 73% of the world’s coral reefs, scientists ask ‘what do we do now?’ (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Start killing oil executives? It won't fix anything but at least they'll suffer the consequences of their actions for once

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

https://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1424-5-things-you-learn-about-rich-people-working-at-nice-hotel.html

Quite an old listicle I read more than 10 years ago, but I still remember #1; "The Armed Security is Terrifying"

First he details how massive security was for the vice president of the US. Then for another high-profile politician, with Secret Service.

But by far the most security we've ever had was for big oil executives. We shut down two entire floors for them that only a select few hotel employees were allowed on. I was not one of those employees. Unlike the Secret Service dudes, rich people private security is as twitchy and heavily armed as every single character in a Michael Bay movie.

It's not going to be easy, but I'm up for it.

Let's make the ultra wealthy people so afraid they'll start hiring tasters again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Until they are too afraid to leave their bunkers, we haven't done enough. As long as they HAVE bunkers, we haven't done enough.