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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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Americans can achieve even more by helping to get others to vote

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

This presumes that a vote has an impact.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In the US, right now, who holds power is still decided by who gets the most votes in elections. Even non-swing-states have congressional races, races for state legislature, and elections for local government.

If you're in a spot where you think your local vote won't be close, you can volunteer to turn others out to vote

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

In the US, right now, who holds power is still decided by who gets the most votes in elections.

But a vote doesn't have an impact.

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

It can certainly happen when things are close, as they are now. Even if all you do is change it from "close" to "not close" the impact is to keep it out of the courts.

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

It can certainly happen

What can?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That l's just because no one did a paper on molotov cocktails thrown at oil barons and politicians and their impact on climate

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

You're seriously underestimating the kinds of things that academia generates

Edit: and yes, the whole thing is meant as a joke. If you're actually using sabotage to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, turning around and selling social permission to pollute is just plain silly.

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

I love science