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Pretty sure that what he's saying is that if we need a 4C increase to trigger mass die-off of tropical forests it's mostly irrelevant since at +4C we enter a lo
by belval 3y ago
Pretty sure that what he's saying is that if we need a 4C increase to trigger mass die-off of tropical forests it's mostly irrelevant since at +4C we enter a lot of other catastrophic scenarios.
It's like if you discovered that when your house is on fire the windows will break. It's interesting on the scientific merits but if your house is on fire the whole building is at stake so it was already understood that the windows will break.
- sdenton4 3y agoTo be sure, when it's mass die off of one of the planets major carbon sinks we're talking about, it's good to pay more attention to the low end of the confidence interval...
- jacquesm 3y agoNo, it's not that. It's that there are multiple factors that put those forests at risk and all of them need to be mitigated to the point that they are safe for the foreseeable future. Deforestation is a huge problem, but this temperature effect has the potential to kill off entire forests in one go. So even if it is a little bit over the horizon assuming that you are going to be able to save some of the forests you'll still lose them. So you need to have multiple lines of attack at once, otherwise you will fail.