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applegrove

(123,138 posts)
Fri Aug 2, 2024, 11:21 PM Aug 2024

Study finds major Earth systems likely on track to collapse: 5 things to know

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"

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Study finds major Earth systems likely on track to collapse: 5 things to know (Original Post) applegrove Aug 2024 OP
This report sounds about 10 years too old. LT Barclay Aug 2024 #1
we had a hell of a run.... bahboo Aug 2024 #2
Sadly, I'm afraid it's too late OKIsItJustMe Aug 2024 #5
Bernie Sanders, Bill McKibben, Climate Update, Aug. 1, 2024 appalachiablue Aug 2024 #3
Actual study here OKIsItJustMe Aug 2024 #4

LT Barclay

(2,734 posts)
1. This report sounds about 10 years too old.
Sat Aug 3, 2024, 12:17 AM
Aug 2024

Everything I have read says we’ve 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.

OKIsItJustMe

(20,771 posts)
5. Sadly, I'm afraid it's too late
Sat Aug 3, 2024, 01:55 PM
Aug 2024

It’s not a matter of “fixing” it any more, it’s a matter of limiting how badly broken the ecosystem will be.

For example, don’t think that our current “extreme weather” will stop. The question is, “How extreme will it get?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1127173955

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