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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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Boston-area climate activists report visits from the FBI (www.wbur.org)
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[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I swear, we have got to be the dumbest goddamn species in existence. We have a beautiful thriving planet, and are actively trying to silence the people trying to save it, all the while cheering on fake increasingly volatile paper money schemes, and we call it the economy. We have one fucking planet, no plan B, and they think they're cool intimidating people for not wanting to be boiled alive.

[–] Cdavid@slrpnk.net 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Ironically it's the typical rich countries you'd see statistics of doing most environment damage

A new wave of government censorship is sweeping across the globe as countries are increasing their crackdowns on climate activism.

From The Cool Down, AUKUS being the usual ones (i'm not going to mention the obvious ones like Saudi Arabia because it's not news they crackdown on protests in general). There's an interesting article "COP29: repression epidemic regarding climate activists and human rights defenders" from last year by Climate Network worthy a read regarding that.

I'd not be surprised multiple scrutiny attempts aimed (including from bot farms) at climate activists on social media to be financed by those said countries and oil companies at this point

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Meanwhile, whales are smart enough to take out yachts. We are this planet's true plague.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 5 points 1 day ago

Given that it's almost exclusively the wealthy that own yachts, I'll take some unexpected nautical allies.