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Current rate of increase is 2.55 ppm/yr We will be at 2000 in 640 years. Previously those rates of change were over the course of millions of years. It is cr
by seadan83 3y ago
Current rate of increase is 2.55 ppm/yr
We will be at 2000 in 640 years.
Previously those rates of change were over the course of millions of years.
It is crazy how much things have changed over millions of years, perhaps crazier to see those same changes 3 orders of magnitude faster.
- seadan83 3y agoFrom yet another perspective, one human lifetime of 100 years would see as much climate change as would normally be seen in 100,000 years.* Humans only started farming 12,000 years ago (which I still find shockingly recent), and humans used to farm all over the middle east (thinking if Iraq specifically, it used to be largely arable). All in all, it's getting really spicy for next couple centuries. * except, the earth climate system can't change that fast relative to an impulse difference of Co2 levels. It us akin to putting 10 blankets on your bed. It takes time for heat to build up (the system experiences a latent effect)