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In a net zero scenario, we should start to see improvement in a couple centuries. The ocean overturning time is roughly 500 years, and getting carbonic acid und
by labster 5y ago
In a net zero scenario, we should start to see improvement in a couple centuries. The ocean overturning time is roughly 500 years, and getting carbonic acid under the carbonate compensation depth can have a huge effect, dwarfing anything we do in the terrestrial biosphere like “planting trees”.
- pfdietz 5y agoYes, we start to see improvement, but then that plateaus. To get back to a preindustrial state would take a very long time, as I understand it.