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Tipping point in Gulf Stream may be reached as early as mid-century

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Re: Tipping point in Gulf Stream may be reached as early as mid-century

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Are you suggesting that humans never write about great extinction events that occurred in the past?

I'm unaware of any surviving artifacts of the chronicles of Lemuria. Non-fictional, that is.

I'm not sure what I'm supposed to take from this statement.

Re: Tipping point in Gulf Stream may be reached as early as mid-century

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"The notion that the Gulf Stream is responsible for keeping Europe anomalously warm turns out to be a myth." https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-source-of-euro...

Sacrilege! Heresy! Sick Fantasy! Madness! Heathen Hell! Demonic Spell!

Don't hold back, tell us what you really think. :)

Re: Tipping point in Gulf Stream may be reached as early as mid-century

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Show your work, please. At this point the burden of proof is on you to disprove it, not the other way around. It hasn't snowed here in years.

The fact you don’t even understand this basic fact and yet are so certain should concern you. 1. Logarithmic effect of CO₂ • The warming effect of carbon dioxide grows logarithmically with concentration, not linearly. • This means the first 100 ppm of CO₂ caused a much larger temperature impact than, say, an increase from 400 → 500 ppm. • Each additional molecule of CO₂ contributes less extra warming because much of…

This is a bit better. You are saying it IS happening, but just not gonna be that bad. I sure hope that's correct, but don't you think 1000s of climate scientists have taken this simple fact as a consideration in their analysis? Even if the effect is logarithmic, we are now at 420 CO2, well above preindustrial 280. We’ve already added 1.2 degrees of global warming. Continuing on the current trajectory will push us to 560 or higher within this century for multiple additional degrees C of warming. The fact that each extra ppm does a bit less does not mean the danger goes away, it means you need bigger increments of CO2 to get the same forcing, and presently we are adding those big increments very quickly. Climate scientists already use the logarithmic law of CO2 and the forcing geometry in all their calculations.
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