| fatslob-:O said: Most of the trapped greenhouse gasses in deep water ice isn't going to see the atmosphere ... |
Not all CO2 is in ice.
Allot of CO2 is on the surface of our Oceans, as they warm, they release stored CO2.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification
| fatslob-:O said: As it is, the worst case scenario so far seems to suggest a 2 degree celsius warming since most of our recoverable fossil fuel reserves will be depleted in 50 years ... |
People have been forecasting peak oil for over a century, it still hasn't happened yet, we keep finding more... And we keep making our current reserves go farther. I.E. Ethanol.
Plus we can grow oil.
2'C warming is a massive increase, don't let anyone tell you otherwise... As someone who works in multiple emergency services agencies, I will hate to see the ramifications of that.
| fatslob-:O said: While that's true what's not valid is arguing that Earth will face a similar effect of runaway climate change ... |
Which is what I am not suggesting.
| fatslob-:O said: @Bold Are you sure ? "And even when we stop emitting, temperatures will continue to rise as our oceans and arctic regions continue to release more CO2 due to the warmer temperatures." It sounds as if you're to lead us into fear mongering that there will be no potential stop to temperature rises even though you said "You should probably take a look at what the effect of almost 2 trillion tons of CO2 will do when our arctic regions permafrost continues to decline... To put that into perspective, that would be like doubling our current carbon levels in the Atmosphere which is already very high." ... Sounds like we have a bounded amount (3x current) of realistically releasable sources of carbon so what'll be ? An incoming armageddon of uncontrollable rise in temperatures or no runaway climate change ? Ignoring Venus you can't have it both ways since their pretty much mutually exclusive ... |
Positive.
As temperatures rise, more CO2 is emitted from Oceans and Ice... More water is evaporated which is one of the largest culprits of the Greenhouse effect.
I am saying we will have an exponential increase, not a never ending one that feedbacks on itself.
| fatslob-:O said: Yeah, there's geopolitical issues to taking advantage of Antarctica since just about every nation signed a treaty to not exploit the territory ... Don't have to worry about that for now ... (potential WW3 would be more of a concern than climate change) |
Considering I live in one of the closest inhabited cities to Antarctica... It's certainly a worry about my region becoming geopolitical and exploited.
Already oil companies are attempting to drill in one of the most pristine waters in the world which is in my backyard.
CaptainExplosion said:
Unfortunately a lot politicians tend to stand in the way of environmentalism. |
Any politician that goes against Science, should honestly not be a Politician.
www.youtube.com/@Pemalite
