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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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[–] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world -2 points 2 weeks ago

It also blocks routes for emergency services, and a significant chunk of those 709k people would include sick people, elderly people, people even on their way to hospital themselves - all stuck in their cars, without easy access to food or water if it had lasted the days the protestor wanted it to. Even if the police had somehow managed to find a way to clear the traffic people could easily have been harmed.

This was not just some little traffic jam and a 5 min delay on the way home, it was a complete stoppage of traffic moving with a potential for people to have been stuck in their cars for hours to days due to gridlock.

However people may feel about cars or the environment, what they did was dangerous and could easily have killed people.