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Silent3

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15. THAT big a feedback loop problem can be ruled out

Reply to Blues Heron (Reply #14)

Mon Jul 17, 2023, 09:49 AM

Jul 2023

There's nothing silly about understanding there are reasonable limits here. We've had some pretty catastrophic events in the past which poured enormous amount of CO₂ into the atmosphere, and plenty of methane too, and Earth hasn't ever been anywhere close to becoming Venus.

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Iran airport reports a heat index of 152 degrees F [View all] milestogo Jul 2023 OP

Heat index, not actual, but still whoa! Blues Heron Jul 2023 #1

Thank you. milestogo Jul 2023 #3

40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) and 65% humidity muriel_volestrangler Jul 2023 #11

What have we done to the planet. applegrove Jul 2023 #2

Actually Timewas Jul 2023 #4

Yup. Meanwhile the right wing oligarchs think their money will applegrove Jul 2023 #5

We're dooming other species more than ourselves Silent3 Jul 2023 #6

That's only until they run out of Otto_Harper Jul 2023 #7

Global warming, bad as it, is not going to wipe out every available food source for humans Silent3 Jul 2023 #12

no guarantee of that at all Blues Heron Jul 2023 #8

We're far, far from Venusian levels of overheating Silent3 Jul 2023 #13

Nobody knows what the feedback loops will do, its silly to pretend otherwise Blues Heron Jul 2023 #14

THAT big a feedback loop problem can be ruled out Silent3 Jul 2023 #15

Are you a geophysicist? Blues Heron Jul 2023 #17

Are you? Silent3 Jul 2023 #19

True but Elessar Zappa Jul 2023 #16

who said anytime soon - the point is we are in uncharted territory Blues Heron Jul 2023 #18

Wow. Most jet aircraft can't take off in that heat as the engines don't produce enough thrust. machoneman Jul 2023 #9

It's the "heat index", which involves humidity, not the temperature. muriel_volestrangler Jul 2023 #10

Combination Timewas Jul 2023 #20