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From what I've read, stomping on the breaks with respect to CO2 emissions would very quickly, and very dramatically increase global average temperature due to r
by tejohnso 7y ago
From what I've read, stomping on the breaks with respect to CO2 emissions would very quickly, and very dramatically increase global average temperature due to reduced aerosol masking.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2017GL076079 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/201...
- projct 7y agoa recent paper disputes this: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1554-z https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1554-z explanation on Ars: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/09/we-can-phase-out-fossil-fuels-fast-without-having-a-burst-of-warming/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/09/we-can-phase-out-fos...
- mrpopo 7y agoEven if this was the case, and even if there was no realistic workaround to it (the article you linked mentions aerosol emission mitigation), this will happen at some point. Would you rather this happens now, or when the world has warmed 5 degrees already?