Posted on 08/06/2018 6:00:22 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
We explore the risk that self-reinforcing feedbacks could push the Earth System toward a planetary threshold that, if crossed, could prevent stabilization of the climate at intermediate temperature rises and cause continued warming on a “Hothouse Earth” pathway even as human emissions are reduced.
Crossing the threshold would lead to a much higher global average temperature than any interglacial in the past 1.2 million years and to sea levels significantly higher than at any time in the Holocene.
We examine the evidence that such a threshold might exist and where it might be. If the threshold is crossed, the resulting trajectory would likely cause serious disruptions to ecosystems, society, and economies. Collective human action is required to steer the Earth System away from a potential threshold and stabilize it in a habitable interglacial-like state.
Such action entails stewardship of the entire Earth System—biosphere, climate, and societies—and could include decarbonization of the global economy, enhancement of biosphere carbon sinks, behavioral changes, technological innovations, new governance arrangements, and transformed social values.
If we don't act now, de-carbonize the global economy, it will be too late.
*sigh*
Again, huge ball of fusing hydrogen. Incalculable galaxy full of more of the same. But somehow, SOMEHOW, we tiny little specs of insignificance are changing the climate.
Relax, we’re much more likely to freeze to death from the next Ice Age.
Watch the sunspot count, that’s what counts.
We better start building those nuclear plants NOW!
Global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on mankind next to B.O. being a great president.
Yea! Longer tomato growing season!
“new governance arrangements, and transformed social values.”
Enslave the US middle class. It’s the only hope for humanity.
Did you notice that youtube link now comes with a Wikipedia link to global warming?
They shouldn’t worry about runaway global warming; they’re all on their way to hell anyway. They should give some thought to that.
We need CO2. At this point we need all we can get. Thanks to technological progress, at some point fairly soon there will be cheap or free energy without CO2, and overage can also be corrected at that point
That last little item, thrown in so casually at the end, is really what the "global warming" fear-mongering is all about. The "progressives" have not been able to elicit popular support for socialism in over a century of trying. They tried selling it on its merits--no. They tried lying about it in a multitude of ways--no. They tried tying it to worthwhile causes--not only no, but we tend to reject the cause as being too closely tied to socialism. Now, they try to tell us to adopt socialism or the entire planet will die.
Carbon is a necessary component of all living things. Without carbon dioxide, there is no life. I sometimes wonder, in the left's zeal to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, if that is their intended (but unspoken) goal.
Has anyone ever noticed that in all of the "global warming" fearmongering, no proponent of the "global warming" hypothesis has ever explained exactly how carbon dioxide has this amazing property of heating up the planet? They say "greenhouse warming" but again, that is not a "how" but only a term used to describe. When it comes to actually explaining it, very few global warmists ever even conceive of the notion that maybe they *should* be able to explain it.
The Envioronweenies know that eschatology works so well that because of it, Christians are encouraged to go to church every Sunday. There is something about disaster and the idea of the Rapture when all believers alive or dead will rise into the sky and join Christ. This fear is spewed out in the height of summer when people are hot and their toleration short.
I wonder if the “run away global warming” will stop when the climate engineering/weather modification high altitude chemical and metal particulate spraying stops?
Please define “self-reinforcing feedback”. Then state the problem it would cause.
Thank you.
Is the earth going to produce more co2 on its' own because there's more co2?
What is this 'self-reinforcing feedback' and what is the mechanism that drives it?
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