If you buy a $5 lottery ticket it'll be have almost no correlation to your savings account balance - your rent, utilities, and food have way more impact. Pay your $1000 rent and wow your savings goes down a lot.
Yet after a lifetime of buying lottery tickets you're down maybe $50k. That's real money even though it had basically no effect on your bank account at any time.
From glancing at it this seems to be the paper; ocean temps go up more CO2 increase, down less CO2 increase, but it doesn't address the lifetime of lottery tickets. The CO2 we put in the air has gone somewhere. It's not alchemy.
In other words just decreasing CO2 emissions won't do anything to change the current course, we'd actually have to go negative so much we get it down well below 400 ppm. Trillions of lbs of CO2 per year turned into limestone or whatever for decades to have any impact.
how assailable is this?
If you buy a $5 lottery ticket it'll be have almost no correlation to your savings account balance - your rent, utilities, and food have way more impact. Pay your $1000 rent and wow your savings goes down a lot.
Yet after a lifetime of buying lottery tickets you're down maybe $50k. That's real money even though it had basically no effect on your bank account at any time.
From glancing at it this seems to be the paper; ocean temps go up more CO2 increase, down less CO2 increase, but it doesn't address the lifetime of lottery tickets. The CO2 we put in the air has gone somewhere. It's not alchemy.
Can CO2 trap infinite heat?
No but that's not necessarily a good thing.
This paper claims that CO2 is saturated at 400 ppm in terms of heat retention which would mean the initial increase from industrial times is responsible for the warming by increasing from ~300 to heat saturation level and everything we're doing now is just locking it in.
In other words just decreasing CO2 emissions won't do anything to change the current course, we'd actually have to go negative so much we get it down well below 400 ppm. Trillions of lbs of CO2 per year turned into limestone or whatever for decades to have any impact.