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At some point surely we hit a scenario with no known stopping point regardless of what we do? Controlled by however much carbon and methane a completely ice fr
by Nevermark 7mo ago
At some point surely we hit a scenario with no known stopping point regardless of what we do?
Controlled by however much carbon and methane a completely ice free Arctic and post-glacier territories release, until those emissions peak and drop far enough for some eventual stabilization of temperature.
It isn’t clear to me why our scenarios are still largely defined by our own behavior, given we have clearly pushed ourselves out of our previous equilibrium.
- ksec 7mo agoAssuming we have entered a negative feedback loop, and so the acceleration will continue, at what point will we enter a stage of no return?
- estimator7292 7mo agoPretty much as soon as the feedback loop starts. We quite simply don't have the technology or resources for planet-scale climate engineering. Even if we did, it should be abundantly clear by now that those with power will do anything to prevent such planetwide measures.
- blini-kot 7mo agowe absolutely do have a couple of such technologies - cloud forming via sulfur emissions and nuclear winter of course, those are as crude as early surgery, but it is there and oh boy I'm sure no one will refrain from using them once we reach an obviously critical point, as the subtle ones are already way behind