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floofloof@lemmy.ca to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 years ago

We could be 16 years into a methane-fueled 'termination' event significant enough to end an ice age

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We could be 16 years into a methane-fueled 'termination' event significant enough to end an ice age

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floofloof@lemmy.ca to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 years ago
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Methane emissions from tropical wetlands have been soaring since 2006.
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    Any reasonable person could take a look at a single fracking operation and understand that it’s one of the worst ideas humanity ever had.

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      But money.

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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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