New Study 'Sounds Alarm' on Another Climate Feedback Loop
@CommonDreams wrote: New Study 'Sounds Alarm' on Another Climate Feedback Loop Andrea Germanos, staff writer The loss of Arctic sea ice has already been shown to be part of a positive feedback loop...
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@Tucson_Don wrote: 5C. If we hit that, then life on earth will move on from humans to whatever it is that lives on Venus. If we live beyond Donald Chump Read full topic
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@Lrx wrote: There are already enough potential positive feedbacks to make it clear this is an emergency situation. Perhaps the biggest concern is thawing permafrost which could release large amounts...
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New Study 'Sounds Alarm' on Another Climate Feedback Loop
@JamesKeye wrote: Lrx: It is easy to see how the whole situation could completely get beyond human control. The situation has never been in our control: we've had our foot on the gas (excuse the punny...
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@EriktheRed wrote: Here's a better recent article: http://www.shortcut4life.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Abrupt-Climate-Change-Article-1-Jan-2017.pdfWhy can't authors--as of this Nature article--be...
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@vaquero wrote: As much as I hate to be that "Mr. Negative guy", I have to be a realist. It is beyond bad. Even here in my state of Florida, and despite cries of "yippee!!" from typical visiting...
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New Study 'Sounds Alarm' on Another Climate Feedback Loop
@manysummits wrote: Ill take this opportunity to highlight what is fast becoming my 'go to book' on climate change. It's main focus is ostensibly the little discussed reaction of the solid Earth to...
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@Lrx wrote: I think at least theoretically it is still under our control, which simply means that if emissions were reduced enough that global warming would be limited before these feedback loops...
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@race_to_the_bottom wrote: "It is easy to see how the whole situation could completely get beyond human control." Unfortunately, there is a good possibility that this is already the case. If we...
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@Lrx wrote: If we stopped all greenhouse emissions tomorrow their levels would quickly begin to fall and the there would be little additional increase in temperature and it would also start to...
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@avocet wrote: Lrx: We can do everything from installing LED light bulbs to joining protests. We can do an awful lot more than that--and we had better do it asap. We aren't helpless, we don't have to...
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@Antisandman wrote: Nice article. The chart on CO2, CH4 and NOs takes a dip just after 1500 AD, The Little Ice Age. The reason according to this article was the plummet of agricultural populations of...
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@Laurenceofberk wrote: "The average temperature on Venus is 864 degrees Fahrenheit (462 degrees Celsius)."........
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@eyewitness wrote: A feature of your explanations pertaining to climate change and the human capacity to control it is the loose manner in which you present it . You stated: “Based on the scientific...
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@merf wrote: Actually if we stopped all greenhouse gas emissions today it would ironically cause a serious RISE in CO2........ for long enough to really screw things up even more. Look it up...The...
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@tibetan wrote: At least 40 positive feedback loops contributing to ACD / Global warming have now been identified. Each one further accelerates the heating of the other 39, meaning 39 accelerating...
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@JamesKeye wrote: What you are saying is that we would like the ecology to be under our control, but since our billions cannot be controlled, then we are not in control: that is not being in control!...
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@dogpaddle wrote: Actually, once runaway heating begins there are all sorts of carbon stores hidden away that may come into play. While we are at 405 ppm now, it could go over 1000-1500 ppm in the...
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@dogpaddle wrote: Most of the plans for keeping temperature change to a few degrees rise include re-sequestration. If we halt all carbon releases immediately, the climate inertia will keep things...
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@Caroline wrote: merf: Actually if we stopped all greenhouse gas emissions today it would ironically cause a serious RISE in CO2........ for long enough to really screw things up even more. Look it...
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