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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 cannot stress too much about it’: Monaco yacht buyers shrug off climate concerns | At annual yacht show, only a handful of customers said they were troubled by vessels’ disproportionate emissions (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 38 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Eco-terrorism sure does sound better and better every day.

[–] theotherone@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago

Trust me, right before 9/11, the government was wondering how to get EarthFirst! classified as a real terror group (especially to take eyes off of the far right groups). Timber folks were getting tired of repairing equipment and dealing with spiked trees. Be safe.

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 27 points 2 years ago

Hey orcas: These guys right here

[–] Tabs@beehaw.org 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wonder if these things sink.

[–] be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They do, and the Orcas will solve this problem for us.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=orcas+attacking+yachts

[–] Tabs@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

We need to provide the orcas with intel and proper equipment.

[–] drdiddlybadger@pawb.social 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

At this point you're just begging to get dolphined man. Someone teach dolphins how to use explosives.

[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] drdiddlybadger@pawb.social 2 points 2 years ago

Holy fuck.

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Its funny because seems like these could be made to be very self sufficient and you would think rich folk would want that.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 years ago

The norm seems to be going for huge diesel engines and helicopter pads rather than sails.