Unfortunately, even if we stopped using all petroleum products right this second, there’s still that nasty 50 year lag between emissions and atmospheric outcome. We’ll be seeing the Earth get hotter and hotter for many years to come before it changes, and by that time, the cascading system failures of Earth’s biomes may be well past the point of no return.
there’s still that nasty 50 year lag between emissions and atmospheric outcome
Are you sure about that?
Humans have caused major climate changes to happen already, and we have set in motion more changes still. However, if we stopped emitting greenhouse gases today, the rise in global temperatures would begin to flatten within a few years. Temperatures would then plateau but remain well-elevated for many, many centuries. There is a time lag between what we do and when we feel it, but that lag is less than a decade. https://climate.nasa.gov/faq/16/is-it-too-late-to-prevent-climate-change/
The time it would take to turn the ship is waaaay more time than it’ll take to travel the very short distance to the rocks the ship is heading towards. That ship gon’ crash.
We don’t have 100 years to get on the right track. Soon, a global heating feedback loop will become prominent enough that it will make “the right track” an ineffective solution.
Change is happening. We’re reaching peak carbon this year or the next 2 years. China is widely forecast to emit less Carbon next year than this year.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-global-co2-emissions-could-peak-as-soon-as-2023-iea-data-reveals/
We just need to keep chipping away. This problem was created over 100+ years and it takes time to turn the ship.
Unfortunately, even if we stopped using all petroleum products right this second, there’s still that nasty 50 year lag between emissions and atmospheric outcome. We’ll be seeing the Earth get hotter and hotter for many years to come before it changes, and by that time, the cascading system failures of Earth’s biomes may be well past the point of no return.
Are you sure about that?
The time it would take to turn the ship is waaaay more time than it’ll take to travel the very short distance to the rocks the ship is heading towards. That ship gon’ crash.
We don’t have 100 years to get on the right track. Soon, a global heating feedback loop will become prominent enough that it will make “the right track” an ineffective solution.