> this one volcano produced a warming effect on the planet equal to about 5.2 years worth of total global carbon emissions in one go, and it’s going to be stuck

> this one volcano produced a warming effect on the planet equal to about 5.2 years worth of total global carbon emissions in one go, and it’s going to be stuck up there for over half a decade. > If you believe that CO2 is slowly warming the planet, then the net result of this one very unusual volcano will be to fast forward global warming five years, and keep us at that fast-forward location for between five and ten years, and then will slowly abate. But because 2023 internet life is a sea of culture war, that straightforward scientific conclusion has gotten churned into the modern media culture war engine, dragging the study’s authors into the milieu. I don't understand the point the author is trying to make. Climate-change is not that bad because without the volcano we would have had five more years? Also "believe" in climate change? What? Is this a new “enlightened centrism”-meme? The fact that a volcano accelerated climate change by 5 years, means we have 5 fewer years to deal with the problem. It made this whole situation even worse.