Won't the rising, boiling oceans get us before we have to worry about this?
CO2 overload in blood suggests toxic atmosphere within 50 years
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#12> There is mounting experimental evidence that lifetime exposure to these increasing atmospheric CO2 levels can negatively impact the normal physiology of organisms... Studies indicate that, after this time, elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide, leading to CO2 accumulation in the body, has the potential to cause a range of adverse health effects.
There's an awful lot of distance from "can" and "potential" to "toxic".
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#13Dang can we please change this editorialized title? When you click through the actual title is: Carbon dioxide overload, detected in human blood, suggests a potentially toxic atmosphere within 50 years
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#14> There is mounting experimental evidence that lifetime exposure to these increasing atmospheric CO2 levels can negatively impact the normal physiology of organisms... Studies indicate that, after this time, elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide, leading to CO2 accumulation in the body, has the potential to cause a range of adverse health effects. There's an awful lot of distance from "can" and "potential" to "toxic".
Can we revisit this comment in 2057?
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#15Won't the rising, boiling oceans get us before we have to worry about this?
How?
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This is the first time it’s been posted?
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#17I'm a bit confused by this, since indoor CO2's higher (double?) so wouldn't we already be experiencing it?
You can get a decent CO2 meter from stores like IKEA. You’ll come to the conclusion that the cozy feeling you get sometimes is directly related to the ppm being well over 1000. It affects your thinking, but it creates “atmosphere”.
The first 440 ppm you’ll get for free. This used to be lower and has risen steeply in the last 100 years and continues to do so.
See the historical graph at https://www.co2levels.org/
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#18> There is mounting experimental evidence that lifetime exposure to these increasing atmospheric CO2 levels can negatively impact the normal physiology of organisms... Studies indicate that, after this time, elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide, leading to CO2 accumulation in the body, has the potential to cause a range of adverse health effects. There's an awful lot of distance from "can" and "potential" to "toxic".
A sign of intelligence is to prevent "can/maybe/potentially" from becoming "actual", especially when the consequences are dire. A sign of unintelligence is to ignore the signs, then blame the ones who acted for needlessly averting the tragedy, claiming it would never have happened.
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#19Won't the rising, boiling oceans get us before we have to worry about this?
No. Even with the amount of co2 current being dumped into the atmosphere there's not enough total solar energy capture to Venus things up. A few thousand years, absolutely.
To add: desertification and more or less removing the support systems for modern population levels can easily happen with what's going on. But the oceans won't boil first. Everything else will die first.
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#20> There is mounting experimental evidence that lifetime exposure to these increasing atmospheric CO2 levels can negatively impact the normal physiology of organisms... Studies indicate that, after this time, elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide, leading to CO2 accumulation in the body, has the potential to cause a range of adverse health effects. There's an awful lot of distance from "can" and "potential" to "toxic".
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