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It could be relevant if a bunch of different wildfires happen around the same time worldwide. If they bring the global average temperature above some tipping po
by chongli 6y ago
It could be relevant if a bunch of different wildfires happen around the same time worldwide. If they bring the global average temperature above some tipping point and result in the melting of permafrost and release of large amounts of methane, that could cause the runaway greenhouse effect to occur much earlier than previously forecast.
- VBprogrammer 6y agoI'm afraid if that was the case the world is so delicately balanced that we are already fubar.
- ForHackernews 6y ago> we are already fubar Nobody's shown any convincing evidence that this isn't the case. We've been tracking worse-than-worst-case-predictions for a while https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/13/climate-worst-case-scenarios-clouds-scientists-global-heating https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/13/climate-...