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These feedback loops are in total larger than our emissions, so once we hit them in the coming decades, the global warming would continue increasing for at leas
by PeterisP 7y ago
These feedback loops are in total larger than our emissions, so once we hit them in the coming decades, the global warming would continue increasing for at least a few centuries even if all humans would be dead and make zero emissions.
Hitting zero emissions now (which IMHO is unrealistic) would stop global warming at something like +2C level. Hitting zero emissions in 2050 will still mean a runaway global warming, and fixing that would require some effects that go way beyond zero emissions e.g. large scale carbon sequestration (effectively negative emissions), geoengineering sci-fi or something like that. In 1980 it would have been sufficient to "just" reduce the growth.