Posted on 09/08/2022 11:42:33 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Even if the world somehow manages to limit future warming to the strictest international temperature goal, four Earth-changing climate “tipping points” are still likely to be triggered with a lot more looming as the planet heats more after that, a new study said.
An international team of scientists looked at 16 climate tipping points — when a warming side effect is irreversible, self-perpetuating and major — and calculated rough temperature thresholds at which they are triggered. None of them are considered likely at current temperatures, though a few are possible. But with only a few more tenths of a degree of warming from now, at 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) warming since pre-industrial times, four move into the likely range, according to a study in Thursday’s journal Science.
The study said slow but irreversible collapse of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets, more immediate loss of tropical coral reefs around the globe and thawing of high northern permafrost that releases massive amounts of greenhouse gases trapped in now frozen land are four significant tipping points that could be triggered at 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, which is three-tenths of a degree (half a degree Fahrenheit) warmer than now. Current policies and actions put Earth on a trajectory for about 2.7 degrees Celsius (4.9 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming since pre-industrial times, according to some projections.
“Let’s hope we’re not right,” said study co-author Tim Lenton, an Earth systems scientist at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. “There’s a distinct chance some of these tipping points are going to be unavoidable. And therefore it’s really important we do some more thinking about how we’re going to adapt to the consequences.”
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Seth Borenstein making more scary bedtime stories for the idiot enthusiasts of the green new deal.
Dear AP: Sod off you stupid bastards.
I don’t cry over human extinction sorry.
Oh, piss off.
A recent study, which made me remember a similar one at least a decade ago, showed that in the US the thermometers used to predict temps and feed climate models are invalid — 96% of them are not installed per instructions.
Basically, the numbnuts who installed these things didn’t want to walk very far from their cushy city jobs so they installed them close to urban centers. Urban centers that have grown enormously since installation. Urban centers generate heat islands — stagnant air that just gets warmer and warmer.
Said instruments are supposed to be installed ~300 feet from anything that could block free flow of air. Umm, since that includes a tree line where in any city could you find a 300ft radius area — except on the roof of a parking lot?
The input data to the models is crappola. GIGO, garbage in, garbage out.
So, 96% of the instruments are feeding invalid data.
“Even if the world somehow manages to limit future warming to the strictest international temperature goal,,,”
Well, I guess I may as well buy that Hummer... (on credit of course)..l.
wait...you mean there’s still time?
Okay, as long as it saves humanity: double the fees and taxes so we get there before it’s too late.
Bull muffins.
If it becomes “irreversible” then there is no point doing anything to “fight it”
This too shall pass.
Seth Borenstein never quits.
If we don’t act now it will be too late again!
the globull warming hysteria reminds me of how indians hunted buffalo
stampeding them towards a cliff
they ran to their death out of fear
think that is accidental?
Just pay more taxes…that will save us. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Winter? Spring? Summer? Fall?
Prominent scientist backs up claim that there is 'no climate emergency' ... Patrick Moore, one of the founders of Greenpeace said in an email obtained by The Epoch Times that his reasons for leaving Greenpeace were very clear: “Greenpeace was ‘hijacked’ by the political left when they realized there was money and power in the environmental movement. [Left-leaning] political activists in North America and Europe changed Greenpeace from a science-based organization to a political fundraising organization,” Moore said.
LOL
It is the only way to stop this and they should be proud to do their part.
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