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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

The never ending cycle of rich countries grandstanding and shaming poor countries into tough regulations, green initiatives, environment preservation to slow down their progress in every sector after benefiting off of massive scale no-consequence exploitation of their own.

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

keep making them roll the dice

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Civilisation référence, yes!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's not just democracies ramping up policing efforts and handing out unnecessarily punishing sentences to protesters. The world seems to have become more hostile since the pandemic took our economies for a tumble. On a societal level it makes sense that government institutions are clamping down on civil disobedience at the same time that disobedience is ramping up because of economic/social/climate/everything else problems

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's been a sustained effort by fossil fuel lobby groups to clamp down on this sort of thing and bribe governments into handing out grossly disproportional sentences.

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

Which is a pretty clear sign that those protests are working.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sounds logical in theory, but in practice one blocking a road gets the same jailtime as a minor abuser.

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

It just goes to show how car-supremacist the court system is.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago

It's not even limited to climate. Sweden is heading for some extreme anti free speech where a university banned expressing "any political opinion which could be understood by a passer by." They had to retract it, but the minister of education were on the side of the university.