One of the major drivers of the exceptional heat building within Earth’s atmosphere has reached levels beyond anything humans have ever experienced, officials announced on Thursday. Carbon dioxide, the gas that accounts for the majority of global warming caused by human activities, is accumulating “faster than ever,” scientists from NOAA, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of California San Diego found.

“Over the past year, we’ve experienced the hottest year on record, the hottest ocean temperatures on record, and a seemingly endless string of heat waves, droughts, floods, wildfires and storms,” NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad said in a press release. “Now we are finding that atmospheric CO2 levels are increasing faster than ever.

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    7 months ago

    But an ice age would be a considerable change in climate.

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        7 months ago

        This one is a much better explanation and unfortunately i tend to agree with you here that humanity will not solve this in time.
        … unless, maybe, we apply drastic geo - engineering methods that would solve only part of the problem.
        And so, i expect a sharp decrease in humanity’s population over the next few decades.

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        i don’t know if it works like that. if you take a petri dish and put bacteria in it with an unlimited amount of glucose (a proxy for oil), colony collapse happens because of pollution

        but the pollution doesn’t go away later and the population doesn’t come back to pre-collapse levels ever