Editor’s note 11/13/2020: Since we launched this blog, experts have raised serious questions about its conclusion and methodology. “The paper is nonsense that shouldn’t have passed a competent peer review,” a meteorologist told Gizmodo. We will continue to monitor the controversy – and be able to update the story again.
Long term planning
Even if we immediately stop burning fossil fuels, climate change will continue to affect the earth for centuries.
That’s the conclusion of research published Thursday in the journal Scientific reports, Which describes climate change and rising temperatures as a vicious cycle that is already out of control. As a result, as Business interior According to reports, European researchers behind the study say it would be too late to stop global warming without ambitious geoengineering projects that withdraw carbon from the atmosphere.
The vicious cycle
The problem, the study authors say, is that carbon sinks such as the Arctic tundra are releasing greenhouse gases warming the atmosphere, increasing the incidence of climate change. The end result, according to their calculations, is a 5.4-degree Fahrenheit (3 સે C) rise in temperature and an 8-foot rise in sea level by the year 2500.
“The tundra will melt over the next 500 years – regardless of how quickly humanity cuts its greenhouse-gas emissions,” said lead author and climate strategist J જોrgen Rendersen. B.I..
Cleaning
Because their research suggests that stopping carbon emissions is not enough to tackle the problem, the researchers say we will need geoengineering techniques such as carbon capture to sustain climate change.
“I’m generally against geoengineering because of its unwanted side effects,” Rendro said. “But if the world continues to delay meaningful and possible action to eliminate fossil fuels, we may have to resort to geoengineering.”
read more: Earth needs to withdraw carbon from the atmosphere for any hope of habitation, a new study has found [Business Insider]
More on Geoengineering: Oxford Physicist: Geoengineering Climate Change Won’t Work
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