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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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Climate activists block Dutch highway for fifth day (www.reuters.com)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Been keeping my eye on this. Incredible effort.

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

We need more! Especially in the USA. Although, building barricades might be a safer way to blockade roads since you can just drop them and go. No people there to hurt.

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

Anything you can just drop any leave, will be just picked up and removed. It does not take long. Putting people on it does a few things, mainly media attention, by putting quite litterally a face to it, but it also slows down police a lot, as they generally do not want to kill people. So chaining a bunch of people on some intressting stands, is way more effective then droping some barrels on the road and leaving.