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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] 15 points 5 months ago (4 children)

The Stone Henge people are saying that the water, lichen, and powder would have reacted badly. I do not have the education to know if that's true or not.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Strangley, 2 days ago they said they'll have to get the experts out to have a look at it, before they can tell.

What a very quick turnaround that, apparently, was......

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

They’re probably just a bunch of upset babies blowing everything out of proportion, of course they would go to the most unlikely and extreme outcome.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Meh.

Their job is to defend stonehenge at all costs. They wouldn't let people look at it if they could get away with it.

Of course they're going to say that the powder is reckless and could potentially upset the lichen or something.

It's hard to believe that this stunt could have any measurable impact in another 10 years or so.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nor did the protesters I would guess.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Neither do the media outlets, but that's the story their running with because the oil companies run ads on their networks.