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The AMOC is slowing, it’s stable, it’s slowing, no, yes, …
(www.realclimate.org)
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.
It's more that you can't rely on a single press release or study to reach a definitive conclusion about complex systems. You can get a sense that there's risk of major problems, but do so without concluding that we're going to see Doomsday Next Tuesday with absolute certainty.
On the other hand, jitter in a complex system is exactly what you expect to see when that system is undergoing a process of destabilization.