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Very nicely written! I would like to emphasize two things: 1. We have passed 1.5C last year, that's something we have measured. And because of this "lag effect
by palata 2y ago
Very nicely written! I would like to emphasize two things:
1. We have passed 1.5C last year, that's something we have measured. And because of this "lag effect" (inertia), this is the result of the emissions from decades ago. Which means that even if we stop emitting entirely tomorrow, it will keep on warming for decades.
2. We all know that the dinosaurs disappeared. What we don't always realise, though, is that the climate change that drove their extinction happened orders of magnitude slower than what we are measuring now. Some like to refer to something catastrophic as "what happened to the dinosaurs"... well what we are measuring now is a lot worse.
- soupfordummies 2y agoI thought “asteroid” was the leading theory for dinosaur extinction. Did that cause a prolonged climate change or has the consensus shifted? Not trying to debate or anything, just curious
- tuatoru 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triassic%E2%80%93Jurassic_extinction_event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triassic%E2%80%93Jurassic_exti... > The Triassic–Jurassic (Tr-J) extinction event (TJME), often called the end-Triassic extinction, marks the boundary between the Triassic and Jurassic periods, 201.4 million years ago. It is one of five major extinction events, profoundly affecting life on land and in the oceans.[...] > The cause of the Tr-J extinction event may have been extensive volcanic eruptions in the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP),[8] which released large amounts of carbon dioxide into the Earth's atmosphere,[9][10] causing profound global warming[11] along with ocean acidification.
- josephcsible 2y agoThe person you replied to was talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Paleogene_extinction_event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Paleogene_e..., not the Triassic-Jurassic one.
- palata 2y agoThe asteroid was the cause of the climate change indeed!