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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] 197 points 4 months ago (34 children)

I think this sends a much stronger message than stone henge

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago

Almost as if when you target the problem it sends a better message than doing some random shit.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

So close together? Probably not. Look at the comments. everyone is just talking about Stonehenge.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

The fact that most comments here seem to be talking about stone henge says otherwise. If not for what happened to stone henge recently, people might not have paid this much attention to this.

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[–] [email protected] 110 points 4 months ago

And that's the kind of protest that people get behind.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 4 months ago (21 children)

Yeah, this I can get behind. Fuck those guys painting Stonehenge, but this? Yeah, go ahead.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 4 months ago (34 children)

Controversial opinion: whats the point of stonehenge if there is no humanity? Its not like it fosters some ecosystem or smth for other species, its a historical piece which holds sentimental value to us humans.

If we continue to use oil, we will for sure fuck up humanity. The act was controversial but the message needs to be looked at

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (3 children)

The guys doing Stonehenge at least tried. They used a powder they thought would just come off in the rain.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (5 children)

The Stone Henge people are saying that the water, lichen, and powder would have reacted badly. I do not have the education to know if that's true or not.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

It hasn't rained yet.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Big oil gonna subpoena every upvoter

Do your part to make them waste money

[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Hear me out. Why don't we spray StoneHenge on the private jets ? one stone at a time, with old fashioned trebuchets

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Wait a minute, that doesn't sound like painting at all!

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago

Finally a great action from those folks!made my day.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago

See, there you go. Direct impact on people who have an impact, and you made the news.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

They leveled up today.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Great stuff! Disappointing that the article didn't mention how they managed to get on the tarmac.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's usually nothing more than a chain-link fence.

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