silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 1 year ago
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The article says this:
“The consensus statement at the moment would be that this is largely anthropogenic forces that have caused the ocean to warm, for the atmosphere to be highly disturbed and to affect the sea ice,” she said.
Which means this in terms of gases added to the atmosphere:
The key thing about these anthropgenic gases, is that the biggest contribution for CO2, the biggest one, is largely from burning fossil fuels:
Of the total anthropogenic CO2 emissions, the combustion of fossil fuels was responsible for about 64% ± 15%, growing to an 86% ± 14% contribution over the past 10 years. The remainder resulted from land-use change.
I’m halfway convinced that we’re looking at a “black swan” phenomenon with this current temperature anomaly. I wouldn’t be surprised if it kicked off more feedback loops and things got very bad rapidly