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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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Alarm as German climate activists charged with ‘forming a criminal organisation’ | Action against Letzte Generation could have ‘immense chilling effect’ on climate protest, campaigners say (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There really is no way to respond to this but with more fervor. The climate isn't going to get less worse bcz they are arresting people. It's up to us to take a stance and force politicians to take the climate crisis serious. The people are in charge, not the other way around.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Self-defense applies here, it's not only valid if someone is actively stabbing you. These people have made clear their intent to let the world collapse in pursuit of power and profit and we need to defend ourselves from them.