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The concern is that temperature response to emissions may look like other buffered chemical systems. See the PH curves here:https://www.chemguide.co.uk/physical
by ABCLAW 6y ago
The concern is that temperature response to emissions may look like other buffered chemical systems. See the PH curves here:https://www.chemguide.co.uk/physical/acidbaseeqia/phcurves.html https://www.chemguide.co.uk/physical/acidbaseeqia/phcurves.h...
Basically we see plateaus where large increments of reagent do nothing, then a massive abrupt shift as the buffering potential of the system fails.
- andy_ppp 6y agoYes I really do think that makes a lot of sense, all that methane trapped in permafrost springs to mind. These scary once in a generation things do occasionally happen...
- 8note 6y agoAlso the ocean acidifying. It's been disolving a lot of CO2 for us, but at some point, it'll reach an equilibrium and our air concentration of CO2 will go up much faster
- AstralStorm 6y agoThat capacity is huge, but in the meantime, all fish will be choked by algae blooms.
- AngryData 6y agoIt is starting to happen now. Many ocean current turnovers rates are at or approaching the time since the start of the industrial revolution. Up until a few decades ago we kept getting clean water coming up from below with low concentrations of CO2. Now we are getting CO2 laden water that can't absorb nearly as much and what "fresh" water we got left coming to us isn't going to last much longer.
- bboylen 6y agoWow I never thought of it this way. Scary stuff