No Climate Event in 2,000 Years Compares to What’s Happening Now

Re:No Climate Event in 2,000 Years Compares to What’s Happen... by adrianN on Thursday July 25, 2019 @12:41PM (#20526878)

The problem is that we need to put our mind to in RIGHT NOW if we want to prevent catastrophic events. It's too late if we start in ten years. Nothing gives the indication that we'll act quickly enough.

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Re:No Climate Event in 2,000 Years Compares to What’s Happen... by axaxs on Thursday July 25, 2019 @12:45PM (#20526916)

I'm not disagreeing, but sadly I feel it may take catastrophic events to get everyone to stop bickering about politics, brexit, reality tv, and all the other trivialities people like to spend their time arguing about.

Logically, to me, if we know what has caused cooling in the past ( whether it's an abundance of some algae, low carbon, or blotting out the sun with ash, I've read all three), we have an idea of what we could try.

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Re:No Climate Event in 2,000 Years Compares to What’s Happen... by adrianN on Thursday July 25, 2019 @01:47PM (#20527623)

Once we hit trigger points like permafrost melting and releasing its 1500 Gigatons of stored carbon, there probably very little we can do.

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