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lol3droflxp@kbin.social 1 year agoCO2 usually stabilises within tens of millions of years and would probably go back to a pre industrial level.
Comment on Pretty interesting, huh?
lol3droflxp@kbin.social 1 year agoCO2 usually stabilises within tens of millions of years and would probably go back to a pre industrial level.
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
If the earth enters a state where most of the water is locked up in glaciers (‘snowball earth’), then it is unlikely that it will be able to exit it. Similarly, if it becomes too hot, it is again unlikely that it will return to what it is now. The earth can handle small disturbances in CO2 / temp, but a sufficiently large swing can lock us into one of the extreme situations.
lol3droflxp@kbin.social 1 year ago
True, however there were extinctions caused by far larger increases in CO2 than we have today and it didn’t happen. So at this moment it does not seem likely that we will achieve it this time.
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Ah, fair. (Unless we melt the permafrost, then all bets are off.)