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.
“There’s no ambiguity about the data,” said Gavin Schmidt, a climatologist and the director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. “So really, it’s a question of attribution.”
Understanding what specific physical processes are behind these temperature records will help scientists improve their climate models and better predict temperatures in the future.
I thought we figured out that it was removing sulfur from ships' fuel that caused less cloud coverage over the ocean which warmed it.
The good news is that now that we know the scale of the effect we can do something similar with non-toxic chemicals and help to mitigate climate change.
That's part, but not enough to explain what we're seeing, unless we've been significantly wrong about how impactful greenhouse gases and aerosols are.
Thanks for the additional info!
Science suffers from a bias towards elegant explanations, maybe it's just a fucking mess and we're not going to find that one single thing to blame it on.