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12. This increase in CO2 is rising faster than ever
Sat Apr 1, 2023, 10:13 AM
Apr 2023

The increase is by the year rather than by the century during the past increases or declines. The last time CO2 was anywhere near 420 The oceans were 60 feet or meters higher. That is above most cities and alone will be an issue. The soot is lowering tge remaining ice's effectiveness which means more hear trap. The paper's premise was what Carter was doing for us over 40 years ago. If we'd followed his goals plus made a big push to reduce heating and cooling energy consumption we might have been able to address species migration. Now each year will be ever worse and some time very soon much of that methane will release and average temps will go up tens of degrees. I've seen 10 centigrade as the estimate, which happened in about a dozen years during the Permian extinction

The situation in the late Permian – increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that create warmer temperatures on Earth – is similar to today.


Here is an article about a 20 centigrade temperature increase event 600 million years ago. The action is over a dozen years.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080528140255.htm

Arctic-news blogspot covers this with thorough details. This is a crisis not an inconvience.

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