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[-] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm not assuming, that assumption is rooted in science. I'm also not saying things will get better. What I am saying is that the climate will stabilize at whatever new normal there is with the amount of carbon in the carbon life cycle, that means whatever extremes exist at that point, will continue to exist.

[-] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

mmmnope. Heard of the clathrate bomb?

There is a fuckton of methane locked in permafrost soils.

Once they start to melt, you get a chain reaction.

[-] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Methane is very potent, and will cause issues for sure. You're absolutely right about that. But it also has a much shorter half life than carbon does, so it doesn't have the same kind of long term effects as carbon does.

[-] Apollo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

It has a much shorter half life but what does it degrade into?

[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Does science say when things will stabilise after we stop using coal and oil? I bet it's not immediate. I bet it will take a lot longer than many think if not hundreds of years just to stabilise into something that maybe isn't even liveable.

[-] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Yes, something like a hundred years or so before it stabilizes. I forget what the models are saying, bcz I don't do climate science, my fiance does, so I usually ask her these queations.

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