Actually, the figures are just about 'man-made' contributions to global warming. If you include natural causes of global warming, then the man-made contributions are much more insignificant.

First up: Water vapour accounts for about 95% of global warming (of which 99.999% is naturally made). Greenhouse gases only contribute 5%. So many 'statistics' on greenhouse gases are usually out by 20-fold.

About 72.369% of the greenhouse gases (which are 5% of total cause) is caused by Carbon Dioxide. This equates to 3.62% of overall global warming.
Of all that carbon dioxide, 3.225% is man-made .... which is a very small proportion.

Overall, If we take into account all greenhouse gases (CO2, methane, N20, CFCs, misc etc)...
Human contributions to global warming are 0.28% in total (including man-made water vapour)

So UK aviation accounts for 0.12% of total man-made C02 ?
Thats 0.12% of 72.369% of 5% == 0.0000434214% contribution of global warming

btw. notice they call it "Climate Change" now. Its easier to apply as a tax.
Climate change is ultimately a way of taxing us. They will keep changing the name and spin on it to keep it fresh.

Why is there so much research into climate change ?
If you submitted a research proposal on african squirrels eating habits, you probably wouldn't get a grant. If you submit a research proposal on the effects of climate change on african squirrels, you will definitely get a research grant.

People research things involving climate change because they are more much likely to get research money for the project.

With this action you have shown your true colours. A bourgeois minority and enemy of the working class.

Your fake, mockney accents never fooled me. I always knew you were not part of our class or our struggle. I had foolishly hoped that you wouldn't resort to attacks on my class in your efforts to establish political careers for yourselves.

Ryan Air customers are predominantly working class people going on a well deserved holiday or to see relatives. Most of them have probably flown less than most of you did before you were 18. Yet it is them you choose to attack.

You may claim that you are trying to raise awareness of 'climate alarm'. I don't believe you for a minute. You are trying to raise awareness of yourselves, good little capitalist, celebrity junkies. You don't fool me kids, you're in this for you and your own, vain, broken and guilt ridden egos.

You might want to consider the carbon footprints of your private educations or the plush lifestyles most of you have lived. You might want to consider that for some people saving up for a Ryan Air ticket to see family or give the kids a break almost breaks the bank and to destroy that for them is unforgivable.

You might want to consider the real life consequences of your actions.

This is no defence of Ryan Air. Ryan Air are cunts.

But there are many ways to attack an organisation. This shambolic effort was a little like the animal rights movements choosing to attack people who've used drugs developed with animal testing. An ineffective, inane and just plain stupid tactic that only furthers to alienate people from your objectives and the wider struggle. And something the animal rights movement is smart enough to avoid.

You might want to look to the tactics of animal rights if you are serious about taking on the flight companies. I doubt you are brave enough to raise your campaign to that level.

Instead you work as unpaid agents of the state, blaming the working class for climate change as opposed to of addressing the fundamental flaws of a mass production capitalist economy.

You are no suffragettes, you are no matyrs. You are snivelling little rich kids with a flimsy grasp on politics firing wildly in all directions in the vague hope you may get your faces on TV.

You have dealt the environmental movement a serious blow. You have further enshrined it in the minds of most as yet another bunch of over-privileged do gooders trying to tell the rest of us how to live.

You use fear and coercion to try and dictate our lives when it is not our class which needs to change but yours.

You don't understand our lives and you don't understand politics.

In fact you might like to just, fuck off.

johnny void

Let's see - you believe in the cause, which gives you absolute right to fuck with people's lives.

I do not believe in your cause, and feel you are actively being distracted from the real issues (which, incidentally, I do believe in), which make me full of shit.

Perhaps "activists" give themselves a bad name.