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.”
But an ice age would be a considerable change in climate.
That’s true.
I mean more like, the only way I suspect we’ll get back to pre industrial levels of co2 is with another ice age. Because I doubt civilization as we know it is going to survive long enough to fix it.
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.
And unfortunately most of that population reduction is going to be people that were not even hooked on fossil fuels to begin with.
As well as all of the other innocent life on this planet that is suffering right now and will continue to suffer.
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