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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: i-node who wrote (1004238)3/6/2017 1:58:17 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (3) of 1575549
 
"Suppose, 20 years hence, it was determined this is a real problem...How long do you think it would take to solve this problem?"

There's a lot of inertia in the system. If the world waits 20 years to start attacking the problem, we won't be stopping most of it, unless we invent a industrial-strength way to remove carbon from the atmosphere. We'll have to wait for orbital influences to dominate.

Human-made climate change suppresses the next ice ageDate:January 13, 2016Source:Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)Summary:Humanity has become a geological force that is able to suppress the beginning of the next ice age, a study shows. Cracking the code of glacial inception, scientists have found the relation of insolation and carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere to be the key criterion to explain the last eight glacial cycles in Earth history.
sciencedaily.com

Even if emissions stop, carbon dioxide could warm Earth for centuries

Posted November 24, 2013; 01:00 p.m.
nature.com
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