4 ms·

Runaway greenhouse effect on Earth is impossible for a billion years or more for a variety of reasons. You're looking for doomsday cult nonsense rather than min

• EForEndeavour 7y ago
  You're right in that our atmosphere will not soon "prevent the planet from cooling and from having liquid water on its surface." In other words, yeah, we aren't going to literally boil the oceans. We shouldn't throw around the term "runaway greenhouse" in serious discussions of anthropogenic global warming. However, reality is somewhere between "doomsday cult nonsense" and the flippant, dismissive tone of your comment that characterizes the worsening climate crisis about which our species is not doing enough as "minor/major climate changes." That's definitely understating the costs and disruptions that human civilization is facing on its current course. I wonder if OP was referring to any of the more immediately concerning positive feedback loops: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_feedback#Positive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_feedback#Positi...
  • deaddrop 7y ago
    >I wonder if OP was referring to any of the more immediately concerning positive feedback loops Yeah, that's why I prefaced it with it being a dumb question. :) If the feed backs are accelerating global warming, it wouldn't be too distant a notion from the premise of runaway greenhouse gases. I'll have to brush-up on my nomenclature to not ask such bone-headed questions in the future. :(