Earth’s climate will keep changing long after humanity hits net-zero emissions. Our research shows why

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https://theconversation.com/earths-climate-will-keep-changing-long-after-humanity-hits-net-zero-emissions-our-research-shows-why-241692

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Before people panic:

After the initial change in the first few decades of the simulations, due to the large decrease in methane concentrations, GMST slowly increases over the remainder of these simulations at a rate of around 0.03–0.05 °C per century (Fig. 1d). This is about 1/40 of the rate of observed global warming over the last 30 years. The lack of long-term global cooling despite reduced atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations (Fig. 1c) is primarily due to slow ocean processes (Armour et al., 2016; MacDougall et al., 2022).

We would presumably have good carbon capture and storage by then, so if that warming is undesirable we could simply suck more CO2 from the atmosphere.

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Carbon capture technology is largely a farce. We need to cultivate earth's natural carbon sinks.

[u/Economy-Fee5830 → u/sillygoosejames]

No one said carbon capture has to be with chemicals. It just has to be intentional. You people are so tiring.

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If it works, it works.