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All the captive carbon will go straight into the atmosphere and stay there? No nonlinear effects are possible that would make that happen differently?
by guscost 11y ago
All the captive carbon will go straight into the atmosphere and stay there? No nonlinear effects are possible that would make that happen differently?
- danieltillett 11y agoNo. Currently about 50% of the carbon ends up in sinks like oceans and some forests. Unfortunately, these sinks look to be getting full, but even if they are able to absorb 50% of the emissions we are still going to go over 1200ppm if we burn all the fossil fuels. Actually one of the big worries is that some of the large carbon sinks like the arctic tundra will start warming up enough to result in a non-linear runaway release of GHG. We don’t know if this will happen, but I am none to keen to find out.
- guscost 11y agoI'm using "nonlinear" in a very different sense, but thanks for the answer.