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Thing is: if you look at the historic temp. record, seldom did temps ever make it to +7 from today's already high temps. Thus almost certainly something will pr
by redwood 15y ago
Thing is: if you look at the historic temp. record, seldom did temps ever make it to +7 from today's already high temps. Thus almost certainly something will provide feedback to negatively impact temps before that level is reached. Still we could lose all the arctic ice before then and live on a very different planet.
- benmccann 15y agoI'm not sure you can draw that conclusion. Historically, there also did not exist 7 billion people burning fossil fuels.
- phil 15y agoYou must mean the recent past, because that's exactly what happened for 10s of millions of years during the late Cretaceous. Edit: and of course a bunch of other times during the Phanerozoic - I just picked one.