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The Hill: Study finds major Earth systems likely on track to collapse: 5 things to know
BY SAUL ELBEIN - 08/02/24 6:31 AM ET
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4806281-climate-change-earth-systems-collapse-risk-study/
"SNIP..........
Four key pillars of the global climate are melting in the heat trapped by rising fossil fuel emissions, a new study has found.
The relatively stable climate that nurtured human civilization depends in large part on these structures: the ice sheets of Greenland and West Antarctica, the Amazon rainforest and the Atlantic currents that warm Europe.
Under current policies, the world faces a scenario in which those pillars have roughly even odds of either surviving or collapsing during the next three centuries, according to results published Thursday in Nature Communications.
The scientists warned that if the pillars are fatally undermined by heat, the resulting damage could prove impossible to undo even if temperatures are successfully brought down later in the 21st century.
...........SNIP"
LT Barclay
(2,701 posts)Everything I have read says weve blown past all of the worst case scenarios for 300 years out already and there are signs of collapse of these systems in the next 50 years. There was a recent report that said the West Antarctic ice sheet was deteriorating more rapidly than past predictions had accounted for.
bahboo
(16,926 posts)we need to elect leaders to fix this shit....or else...
OKIsItJustMe
(20,422 posts)Its not a matter of fixing it any more, its a matter of limiting how badly broken the ecosystem will be.
For example, dont think that our current extreme weather will stop. The question is, How extreme will it get?
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1127173955
appalachiablue
(42,793 posts)OKIsItJustMe
(20,422 posts)(Open Access)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1127175372