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Wow main author is grok beta. Are we cooked HN? Quick skim it seems they are saying humans are neglible and the ocean / land cycles / sinks play a bigger role.

• rolph 1y ago
  Do we not impact both those with our industry and even minor changes can upset the balance? TLDR: yes. physical processes cyclicaly source, and sink chemical compounds as part of energetic exchange. biology has slewed the balance a number of times; the great oxygenation; the great eutrophication ; the neoanthropic carbonization. these set a new balance and a new regime of physical processes tied to energetic exchange, and relative abundance of chemical reactants and products. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Carbon_cycle.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Carbon_cycle.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_cycle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_cycle the physical circumstances make it complicated, the underlaying engine, is chemistry. consider, millions of years worth of carbon sequestration being released [burned] over a span in the order of centuries.
• quantified 1y ago
  We've been watching this train wrecking in slo-mo for decades. Funny how the mainstream science has been predicting reasonably well. Re-watch Soylent Green if you need to.