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Yeah, we need to go extremely carbon-negative, not merely carbon-neutral. It's so easy to forget this.

• elzbardico 5y ago
  Why?
  • dataflow 5y ago
    Why do we need to go carbon-negative? Because the atmosphere already has too much CO2, and reducing net emissions to 0 means that CO2 will stay there. We've emitted that CO2 in the course of (say) 300 years but need to pull it down in (say) < 50 years, hence we need to pull it down much faster than we emitted it. Not sure if that answered your question or if you meant something else.
    • czbond 5y ago
      Thanks - that did help me.
    • elzbardico 5y ago
      Yes, but what I wanted to know is if we kept the current concentrations would temeperature keep rising or would it stay basically the same as it is today.
      • ummonk 5y ago
        It would stay the same. And nature would reduce current concentrations back to normal over the next few centuries.