5 ms·
Infinity if it’s a decay series, or 18 years if it’s a constant.
by hyperhello 3y ago
Infinity if it’s a decay series, or 18 years if it’s a constant.
- civilitty 3y agoIt wouldn't be an infinite decay even in a world with spherical cows because the ice mass is the value decaying and eventually the ice is no longer heavy enough to be called a glacier.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoWhich makes estimating this particularly tricky (and pointless) because there's no obvious point at which a mass of ice turns from "glacier" to "not glacier". Better to pick something erring far towards "totally obviously not glacier" as a reference point.
- mrpopo 3y agoSorry to break it up to you, but the warming is accelerating, as the amount of GHGs is increasing year-by-year. So it may take even less.
- landemva 3y agoClimate and weather are cyclic, not linear.
- Daishiman 3y agoThe increase in CO2 is linear and as long as that continues to be the changes will be linear or higher.
- landemva 3y agoWhat increase? EPA says USA has reduced CO2 emissions over past quarter century. https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-us-greenhouse-gas-emissions https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indica...
- unforeseen9991 3y agoThe USA offshored it. And the USA is not the entire world.
- landemva 3y agoTheir prices are artificially low due to their manufacturing pollution which negatively affects the entire world. Maybe consider environmental parity tariffs against those polluting countries. Or is The West too addicted to cheap stuff?