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Rising methane may indicate Earth's climate in 'termination-level transition'
- myshpa 3y agoOriginal title: Rising methane could be a sign that Earth’s climate is part-way through a ‘termination-level transition’ Shortened due to title maxlength limit.
- api 3y agoI think it’s likely that we have already triggered a transition and will have to adapt to it. We should be planning more seriously for this. If we’d replaced coal with nuclear power in the 1980s and 1990s and nuclear instead of coal had powered the Asian growth of the 2000s it’s possible we would have avoided this, but it’s probably too late. We can probably use solar and wind instead of nuclear today but that stuff was simply not ready in time. We needed to start decarbonizing 50 years ago.