Re:Climate change risk assessment 2021 [pdf]
by dchapp on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @07:24PM
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Suppose all of those mitigations in your second paragraph are true. If phytoplankton die off in meaningful amounts, where will we get our oxygen?
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Re:Climate change risk assessment 2021 [pdf]
by frazbin on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @07:26PM
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We have thousands of years of oxygen banked in the atmosphere so it's not an issue on the same time scale as co2
Re:Climate change risk assessment 2021 [pdf]
by dchapp on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @10:38PM
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Thanks! Since this was not obvious to me (and maybe isn't to others) here's a summary that cleared things up for me: https://blogs.nicholas.duke.edu/citizenscientist/oxygen-in-t...