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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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In surprise vote, European climate protection plan shelved following farmer protests (abcnews.go.com)
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[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's highly disturbing how the general public had a vastly different reaction to farmers blocking traffic to protest, as opposed to climate activists blocking traffic to protest.

Extremely nasty, in fact.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

It's almost like the reaction is about the message, not the act of blocking things.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

I called my brother and sister in law out over exactly this, because we heard the beeps and honks in the distance in our town. Self reflection lasted all of 5 seconds, and then it was back to regularly scheduled programming. People don't want to think about the horrifying environmental situation we're careening towards, so they just... don't.