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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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‘You’re gonna eat bugs’: Climate fears and conspiracies at Canberra renewables protest (www.theage.com.au)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

And that's why we can't wait for boomers to die.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You are going to be sorely disappointed when that doesn't solve our problem and people remain people. Ever spoken to a young liberal?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Or anyone that uses Facebook or any other platform of misinformation. There are some fucked up 20 year old climate change deniers at my work and I work in the environmental industry! What are they doing there?!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Psychological warfare victims

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

And that’s why we can’t wait for boomers to die.

You are going to be sorely disappointed when that doesn’t solve our problem

No, see... we'll get to eat the boomers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Neither Bernie Sanders nor Donald Trump are boomers, yet they are basically as different as people can be.

Much is being made of the climate denialists, anti-vaxers, anti-trans, and white supremacists. Take a look at their membership and the people who show up to the marches. The vast majority are younger than boomers.

To put some more names on the non-boomers seemingly intent on destroying society: Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Pierre Pollievre (looking like he might be Canada's next Prime Minister).

I'm under no illusions regarding the damage that my generation has done, but let's be clear: it's the stupid and the rich, powerful, greedy, and just generally miserable excuses for human beings in every generation ever that have wrecked the world and continue to do so.

Whoever came up with "generational psychology" must have been intent on finding yet more ways to divide and conquer. We need solidarity of purpose, not infighting based on artificial or statistical constructs.