This factors in some feedback loops which most sudies to date have ignored. Note, that it excludes extra warming caused by all the additional water vapour in the air.

For context, studies suggest that the largest extinction event in Earth’s history (so far), the Late Permian Extinction Event, saw temperature rises of around 8°C.

    • @RedactedOPEnglish
      6•11 months ago

      Yeah I should have noticed before I posted, cheers for highlighting.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•11 months ago

      I think when/if this get peer review, we hold some big sad party about how fk’d we are

      • SokathHisEyesOpenEnglish
        4•11 months ago

        Nah, we’ll pump another 35 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, and continue along as always.