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If we don’t respond to climate change now and aggressively, like we are fighting a war, humanity is toast. Climate change will quickly wipe out most life on ea
by edgefield 5y ago
If we don’t respond to climate change now and aggressively, like we are fighting a war, humanity is toast. Climate change will quickly wipe out most life on earth. The IPCC “code red” report doesn’t even take into account several enormous feedback effects such as methane off gassing from rock formations.
- albertgoeswoof 5y agoClimate change will probably help increase life on earth, given it will likely remove the most invasive and bio-suppressant species on earth today, humans
- edgefield 5y agoTrue. Just give the planet 1M years to recover.
- MichaelZuo 5y agoCertain species reproduce very fast and will definitely take advantage of the higher temperatures relatively quickly, within a century.
- rootusrootus 5y agoThe odds of humans actually going extinct due to climate change seem pretty long. A massive reduction, sure, but all of them?
- albertgoeswoof 5y agoWe don’t have to kill all the humans to prevent the extinction of life on the planet
- alexose 5y agoAt 6°C (the very upper end of the IPCC report), the planet loses its ability to create clouds. Which itself means another 7°C due to the lowering of the albedo. Certainly a civilization-ending event, and perhaps a life-ending one.
- rchaud 5y ago> Climate change will quickly wipe out most life on earth. I think the resource shortages, water wars and refugee crises that precede the actual climate-driven apocalypse will get us there a lot faster than we imagine.