Overall, we are actually very terrible at understanding global consequences. Earth as a dynamic system is just too big and interdependent. Yet Earth's biosphere

Overall, we are actually very terrible at understanding global consequences. Earth as a dynamic system is just too big and interdependent. Yet Earth's biosphere has recovered from cataclysm after cataclysm. Usually at the expense of 90%+ extinction. A big reason the carboniferous period happened is because fungi had not yet developed the capacity to digest cellulose. We're in a different regime now, and there is no telling what will happen. But one thing I think is pretty clear: we aren't going to tech our way out of this and make up some magic carbon sink. So the Earth is probably headed for a really hot period with lots of carbon in the cycle, until it stumbles on a new way to sink it. Either that, or it will head towards a semi-permanent desert planet.