/sci/ - Science & Math

>>10742120
Here's the big picture.
See that red line going straight up at the end? That's us doing it.

All the CO2 we have emitted hasn't fully impacted yet. It's not like flicking a light switch. And we will keep emitting CO2 and adding even more in the meantime.

Now, that CO2 will increase global temperatures by a couple of degrees on its own, but the real danger is that it will trigger several feedback loops that will push temperatures even higher.

As the ice in the poles melts, there will be less albedo = more heat
As the ocean warms it will absorb less CO2 = more heat
Ocean warming up may cause methane deposits at the trenches to thaw out, causing the ocean to begin emitting large quantities of methane = Much more heat
Increased temperatures may also increase the amount of forest fires = less CO2 absortion by the forests = more heat

Deforestation also increases the amount or methane released into the atmosphere, and reduces the amount of absortion by plant life.

Now it is not really certain that all of this will happen, there is some debate on whether the Clathrate Gun Hypotesis will trigger or not, but almost every scientist out there agrees that we are fucking up with natural cycles that take hundreds of thousands of years to happen and that the consequences will be overall extremely negative for Human life.

Hmm, I wonder if they are related somehow.....