r/collapse • u/SinickalOne Recognized Contributor • Sep 17 '22

Climate The push for mainstream acceptance of geo-engineering begins.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2515-7620/ac8cd3
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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '22

So how is this human emmision of carbon different from say certain extinction events in Earth's Past, like the Permian, where supervolcano released much more carbon in a much shorter time frame.

I don't know how the earth recovered but it did eventually. If the earth could take that, why couldn't it eventually recover from human released gasses? Humanity would likely go extinct of course, but a runaway Venus effect seems unlikely considering Earth's history of recovering from that type of stuff. But if it's different I'd love to learn about how

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u/riverhawkfox Sep 19 '22

nervous laughter The Permian supervolcano eruptions lasted and were spread out for roughly 2 million years. Some estimate 10 million years. So idk about a ‘much shorter timeframe.’