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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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Bucharest, Romania, January 2012 vs. January 2025. Climate change is real and is happening at an alarming pace (libranet.de)
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Also, there's been no snow this winter yet, and we're already in February

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (5 children)

N=2 is not a good sample size. This level is variation year after year is not exactly abnormal. Weather isn't climate.

Climate change is real, but this post is bad science.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

It's good to tie* long-term trends to experiences. People don't feel the global temperature average going up, but they do feel local temperature going up.

Here's a nice recent paper which includes Bucharest: Estimating future heat-related and cold-related mortality under climate change, demographic and adaptation scenarios in 854 European cities | Nature Medicine

Here's a nice platform to search for records... thanks to MSN: https://www.msn.com/en-xl/weather/records/in-Bucharest,Romania look at the red line.

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

I totally agree with you my friend. But when showing information in the way of this video, you open yourself to attacks, because you're mixing weather with climate, and sometimes hot days happen in winter. This sort of bad science communication without the necessary context can do more harm than good IMO.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

And what's your strategy for communicating The Big Problem?

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