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Climate Protesters Were Coming, So the Gardner Museum Locked Down
(www.nytimes.com)
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
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:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
That's why I think this is an astroturf from the energy corporations. The ones organizing them are not climate activists but right wingers looking to discredit any kind of climate activism.
Oh the people there in the ground might be true believers and just dumb, but someone is funding and pulling their strings.
As much as I'd love to believe you're right, I can't rule out "sheer ignorance" from the equation... I've talked to climate activists who were truly detached from reality. For instance, one thought the only use of "nuclear" was in context to weapons, seemingly ignorant of it's peaceful uses for energy.