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Isn't the methane release going to accelerate the warming exponentially to the point of mass-extintion? The so-called feedback effect. Permafrost is thawing 70
by 2_listerine_pls 7y ago
Isn't the methane release going to accelerate the warming exponentially to the point of mass-extintion? The so-called feedback effect. Permafrost is thawing 70 years before the simplistic models predicted:
- https://www.livescience.com/65709-arctic-permafrost-melts-decades-early.html https://www.livescience.com/65709-arctic-permafrost-melts-de...
- https://envisionation.co.uk/index.php/nick-breeze/203-subsea-permafrost-on-east-siberian-arctic-shelf-now-in-accelerated-decline https://envisionation.co.uk/index.php/nick-breeze/203-subsea...
Also, there is Nitrous Oxide too, which will deplete the Ozone layer:
- https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/06/harvard-chemist-permafrost-n2o-levels-12-times-higher-than-expected/ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/06/harvard-chemi...
- 9nGQluzmnq3M 7y agoI'm not qualified to comment on whether Earth will eventually end up looking like Venus, I'm just pointing out that in the short term there will be places that gain from climate change as well.
- m0zg 7y agoI think it's pretty safe to say that Earth will not end up looking like Venus from a simple fact that there were times in its history when greenhouse gas concentrations were much higher than even the wildest projections you'd see today, and yet here we are. Now granted, there weren't any people back then, but the planet did not turn into Venus.