Too late to save the climate? [View all]
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2023
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/
Whether anything can be done by humans to arrest or reverse global warming and its consequences for the habitability of planet Earth remains an open question, for which neither climate science nor the ignorant hordes of politicians and economists, oblivious to the basic laws of physics, have the answer. However, it is likely that over the next centuries or longer the flow of cold water from the melting of the Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets will lead to a transient slowdown of the rate of warming before the large ice sheets are exhausted.
~~within the above paragraph is a link to NOAA that I can't seem to embed so I'll link it here:
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/can-we-slow-or-even-reverse-global-warming#:~:text=While%20we%20cannot%20stop%20global
Can we slow or even reverse global warming?
BY DAVID HERRING AND REBECCA LINDSEY
PUBLISHED OCTOBER 12, 2022
Climate Q&A
Yes. While we cannot stop global warming overnight, we can slow the rate and limit the amount of global warming by reducing human emissions of heat-trapping gases and soot (black carbon).
If all human emissions of heat-trapping gases were to stop today, Earths temperature would continue to rise for a few decades as ocean currents bring excess heat stored in the deep ocean back to the surface. Once this excess heat radiated out to space, Earths temperature would stabilize. Experts think the additional warming from this hidden heat are unlikely to exceed 0.9° Fahrenheit (0.5°Celsius). With no further human influence, natural processes would begin to slowly remove the excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and global temperatures would gradually begin to decline.
Having ignored climate science, dismissed climate scientists and repeatedly confected untruths, while global heating accelerates with deleterious consequences, Homo sapiens finds itself on track toward carbon poisoning of the atmosphere, the lungs of the inhabitable Earth, acidification of the hydrosphere and coating of the land with carbon and plastics.
I'm almost shocked on a daily basis by how few people take this seriously. It really feels like I'm living in a Twilight Zone episode where I'm the one who is hallucinating something awful and the real world is doing just fine. Nope. The masses are in complete denial of this climate disaster because, well, because of a few things: it hasn't hit them yet physically or economically but that window is narrowing, the mass media ignores it, the freaking weather channel downplays it and of course as we all know the billionaire powers that be who run countries as well as corporations don't want people to know the truth.
With no further human influence, natural processes would begin to slowly remove the excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and global temperatures would gradually begin to decline. ~~ Yep with no humans around doing horrible shit other life will move on.