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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 Protesters Were Coming, So the Gardner Museum Locked Down (www.nytimes.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's why I think this is an astroturf from the energy corporations. The ones organizing them are not climate activists but right wingers looking to discredit any kind of climate activism.

Oh the people there in the ground might be true believers and just dumb, but someone is funding and pulling their strings.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As much as I'd love to believe you're right, I can't rule out "sheer ignorance" from the equation... I've talked to climate activists who were truly detached from reality. For instance, one thought the only use of "nuclear" was in context to weapons, seemingly ignorant of it's peaceful uses for energy.