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That's at the extreme of unlikely. The carbon that we're digging up was in the atmosphere before, it has just been sequestered, we're returning to a state that
by lamontcg 3y ago
That's at the extreme of unlikely.
The carbon that we're digging up was in the atmosphere before, it has just been sequestered, we're returning to a state that the Planet has seen before.
Across the entire Earth's history we're still at a fairly cold point and a long way from "Greenhouse Earth" and the temperatures at the Eocene Optimum.
And according to the IPCC: "a 'runaway greenhouse effect'—analogous to [that of] Venus—appears to have virtually no chance of being induced by anthropogenic activities"
- Freebytes 3y agoIf the Earth warms significantly, we could have a situation where it triggers an ice age. (There are mechanisms for this to happen.) If the surface temperature of the water surface rises to a very high level, we could also have hypercanes.
- mcguire 3y agoMore or less unlikely than a superintelligent AI converting all of us into paperclips?