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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] 23 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It would be enormously easier to track Taylor Swift on a random flight in business class, because the moment people saw her on their random flight in business class it would turn into a social media frenzy.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

As a non American, I wouldn’t care actually. You guys need to chillax with your celebrity fetishisation

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Lol, you think only Americans worship celebrities? You need to travel more lol - shit is an issue everywhere, you ever seen a k-pop idol?

Some humans just fall for that shit for whatever reason.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

yeah but Americans do that, too.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

As an American, I can honestly say the only three times I've met a celebrity, once I didn't even recognize her (still don't remember her name, she had appearances on crime shows) , once I didn't care to acknowledge their presence (Kevin sorbo) , and once I literally just said "Hey do you and Alan Tudyk ever hang out since firefly? I love that show" to Nathan Fillion. Yes, they do things together sometimes.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Hey just because he ignored me and I had to follow him for weeks to get an answer, doesn't make me a stalker!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Om not even American and have only spent a few months there, it even I've met more than 3 celebrities in America. That's an oddlyow number. I mean, just the other day in Sydney, Rachel Griffiths was in myocal café here in Sydney. I believe sheives locally, so it's not odd but celebrities are everywhere. She wants bothered by anyone. Taylor would be. I'm not a fan, but I can understand why she'd fly privately. I hope she offsets the emissions, but even the small effort she has done to improve youth voting would offset those emissions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

3 months is more than enough to give you the virus of shit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

So...a bunch of idiots end up on the no-fly list? I don't see a down side. I mean, I could see it being stressful for poor tay-tay, but nothing her money can't pay for in therapy.