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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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Government drops appeal over climate activist who held sign outside UK court | Judge had thrown out case against Trudi Warner, sign told jurors they had a right to acquit 'according to conscience' (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

My familiarity with UK law is low, I wasn't aware there was a similar concept to jury nullification.

[–] spidermanchild 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My knowledge is probably even lower, but I do recall hearing that most of the US law is just copied from UK law as of the 1700's, with some divergence since then.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

That’s not per se inaccurate. There would have been relatively little cultural divergence at that point, so large scale “take what you like and leave the rest” would have been reasonable.

Wouldn’t want to copy and paste their laws now (see “Safety of Rwanda” bill under the prior PM), and we made the right decision from the start to dispose of honours with titles altogether.

Not, of course, that we’ve banished the aristocracy, or even the generally well-off, but can you imagine an effusive Sir ($FalconRocketGuy)?

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