This is not a forecast for 50 years time, it’s happening today.
This is not a forecast for 50 years time, it’s happening today.
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Only another 100 years or so until maybe temperatures come back down.
Maybe.
Once we are all dead and can no longer emit carbon dioxide?
No, there is a definite decomposition process that will see some heavy emissions.
Fortunately no. (Maybe fortunately).
The last IPCC climate change report predicted that shits gonna get real fucking bad for a while, but at the rate we're going it should at least turn around sometime between 80 to 100 years.
Is there feasibly anything we can do to shorten that time? Even if it’s on a catastrophic/behemoth level of change/effort? Or is this just how it is?
The obvious answer is yes.
We could shut of all fossil fuel usage tomorrow except for where it's needed (eg a single generator to kick start a countries power grid if things actually go down) and make a painful hard switch to renewables. We could begin using renewable energy sources to start extracting CO2 from the atmosphere.
I don't know and can't speak to how effective that would be, from memory the earth would continue to warm for some time to come even on their optimistic predictions.