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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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Calling this "climate change" is not enough | Journalists and meteorologists must go further, and call rapid hurricane intensification a symptom of fossil fuels. (heated.world)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I disagree with this. Don't give deniers any more ammunition than they already have. There's enough verifiable data on the topic that we don't need to shoot ourselves in the foot by resorting to sloppy science.

That said, I would love to see every news story end with: "In recent years there's been a statically significant increase in severe weather due to climate change."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You’re worried the people who already ignore all the evidence and believe it’s all lies will, what exactly?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People like that point at any article with weak data as validation that climate change has no basis. It's better to not give them that opportunity.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They don’t need that opportunity because they’ll just make shit up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Still, better to use solid data when making arguments.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Facts clearly don’t work.

We’ve known them for over a century and done nothing.

I’d rather see the media using its huge influence over the population to be at least be making them worried about climate change instead of ignoring it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Again, there are many people that use the "doom and gloom" climate change prophecies that haven't come true yet as an excuse to ignore the problem entirely. Better to be factual and correct.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There was an article posted the other day about that. I agree. Various media outlets needs to start stepping up and getting loud about it.

I love that idea. On TV weather, talk about it constantly.