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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] 64 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago

Not just this cunt, tory cunts.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago (6 children)

And the only rationale is this..?

in the hope of opening up a clear divide over the green agenda with Labour

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago

Either

  • cos they are just trying to burn it down and make a quick quid for their mates
  • it's genuinely a fault in the voting line and they have realised they'll manage to cling on to power

I can't decide which makes me angrier.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He's setting up him and his friends for jobs in banking and oil once he loses to a disastrous (for tories) labour majority in early 2025

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We voted for Brexit. Don't underestimate our ability to vote in these cunts again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Oh sure, but also I'm just going on what seems to actually be happening. He's losing should-never-lose battles. I'm more worried that farages new fasicist and popularist party will get too much power rather than the tories. Tories are kind of just dead in the water now

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

He's trying to make sure his party will lose by an even greater margin?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

He knows his party is fucked so he's trying to do favours for his mates in the oil industry while he still can

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Makes me fucking livid. They don't pretend it's for anyone’s good any more: they just nakedly wreck shit for political gain. Pepperidge Farm remembers when these shitters used to try and justify their awfulness.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

It is basically guaranteed that he has lost the next election so he is just frantically throwing everything at the wall to see if anything sticks

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago

What a cunt

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm nothing like a royalist or anything, but Charles isn't gonna like that given his involvement in environmental causes.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

I imagine there's going to be quite a lot inward wincing and teeth grinding.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm pretty sure Charles is the "we need to sterilise the poor so they can't breed because the world is over populated" kind of environmentalist that also supports fox hunting. At least that's the only kind environmentalist British aristocrats tend to be.

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

At this point I consider any of these "policies" to be a form of suicide.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Prime Minister holds rather a lot more power

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

Like what, setting the tea prices?

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

The Prime Minister is something like speaker of the house plus the non-ceremonial parts of being President rolled up in one.

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

Yeah, but it's a tiny island nation. Barely the size of a u.s. state. They lost any power they had when they left the eu.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It's larger than most US states in terms of area, and bigger than California in terms of population, with a similarly-sized economy. That's big enough to still matter.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

It's fairly clear at this point that conservatism and conservatives are an existential threat.

It's unfortunate that right-wing parties will likely get more and more popular the worse things get as people tend to flock to populists in times of crisis, and I don't know about other countries but here in Finland the under-25's are actually more conservative than eg. millennials or gen X – in this year's parliamentary elections ~30% of them voted for either an extremist right wing party that has a nontrivial amount of literal neo-Nazis in it, or the "fiscally conservative" party which isn't much better (and has a bit of a revolving door with the extremists).