It’s not really a latency effect - it’s more of a phase change, as you shift from one chaotic oscillation mode to another, and we’ve finally managed to get enou

It’s not really a latency effect - it’s more of a phase change, as you shift from one chaotic oscillation mode to another, and we’ve finally managed to get enough energy into the system to make it find a new mode. What we have now is the previous mode faltering and wobbling out of its relatively stable phase, into… who knows. Fun thing about chaotic systems - they’re chaotic. You can’t just put the parameters back to where they were and expect the same system you had to reestablish. There’s no “undo”, and modelling rapidly runs out of ideas - our best forecasts are so-so at best. Layer atop that the chaotic systems of humanity, and you’ve got… an interesting interaction. You don’t need the entire world to burn for systems to collapse - you just need to watch the underwriters collapse, as you spend more and more of your GDP on cleaning up the mess and security, and run out of money for anything else. Meanwhile, crops fail, and food becomes increasingly erratic in supply. We’ll turn on each other long before the climate kills us directly. I for one do not expect to die of old age.