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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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[–] sinkingship@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thank you very much for your thoughts!

Medieval spelled wrong was a mistake by me. English is my third language and this is one of the words, where I am never really sure how it is spelled!

Thank you for clarifying the word "dark ages". I just read the regarding Wikipedia and if I understood it correctly, both of us are not wrong.

I don't know about how many women were burned. I am currently reading Carl Sagan's "A Demon Hunted World" and there he states in the 7th chapter talking about the chronicles of the city "Würzburg":

There were 28 public immolations, each with 4 to 6 victims on average, in that small city in a single year. This was a microcosm of what was happening all across Europe. No one knows how many were killed altogether - perhaps hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions.

Maybe you are right on scientist. It's just what I've heard, that people were persecuted, when they were saying things that challenged the image the Church was providing.

For education: I don't actually know how it was. I assume that education was reserved for a small wealthy minority, but this is more guessing than knowing. So I take your word.

I agree on your words on modern transport. There can be plenty of discussion about what is necessary and what not. But this is missing the point I was trying to make: How much knowledge we gained in a short period of time.

Personally I am against private transport, at least the way it is practised today. I think everybody can have a bicyle, I am not against this. But I think a ton of steel that takes up 10 square meter is a little over the top to transport a single person as well.

Thank you again for writing this up. This gives me plenty of interesting topics to look into!