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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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Trump Iowa event interrupted by climate protesters (www.nbcnews.com)
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[–] Timwi@kbin.social 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Rad.

Will it make a difference though?

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 25 points 9 months ago

I don't expect it to sway Trump, but it gets discussion of climate as a political topic into the news, which likely helps a bit.

[–] xor@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

yes

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's too abnormally cold to have to deal with this shit on top of it!!

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 months ago

Thing is, really cold snaps like this are happening less than they used to.

[–] doingthestuff@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They should be outside of Congress or the white house but you have to respect opportunism.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 9 months ago

People have done both on occasion, as well as sit-ins at congressional district offices