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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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I’ve got a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty baby, and I’ll write your name: Just Stop Oil paint private jets hours after Taylor Swift’s lands (juststopoil.org)
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[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Can't squeeze blood from a stone. The cost to repaint those jets is going to be a lot more than they can ever recoup from the activists.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's apparently water soluable so the paint should come off easily. The expensive part is going to be cleaning the engines and external instruments if they need to be cleaned and reccalibrated or recertified. The courts have been handing out serious sentences running into the multiple years so they may have that coming as well.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm not aware of any committed activist that was ever deterred by a prison sentence. But they are usually pretty poor so my original point stands.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Well at least they won't have to worry about feeding, clothing, and housing themselves for a while.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Lol yeah

Edit to add - I meant to add, and they'll find a whole bunch of disaffected people ripe for recruiting to a direct action cause. But my ADHD brain forgot. :(