Oceans extend effects of climate change

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Even if fossil fuel use ceased immediately, existing atmospheric emissions would continue to raise global temperatures for the next century, with sea levels rising for an even longer duration. This highlights the urgency of addressing climate change, as delaying action will exacerbate the situation. Some participants in the discussion question the relevance of CO2 concentration to climate change, suggesting that the impact may be overstated. They argue that understanding the complexities of climate dynamics is crucial, as current knowledge remains limited. The conversation reflects a mix of concern over climate impacts and skepticism about the data and predictions surrounding CO2 levels.
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Even if the world stopped burning fossil fuels tomorrow, the emissions already in the atmosphere would cause global temperatures to climb for the next hundred years and the sea level to keep rising for even longer, scientists have calculated.

...The longer we wait, the worse it gets.

Gerald Meehl
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado [continued]
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050314/full/050314-13.html

Who are you going go listen to when everything is at stake?
 
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We're still in the endless frightening spiral aren't we.

There is little point in repeating over and over again that the concentration of CO2 is hardly relevant to climate. And moreover this guy may be exagarating a bit. Just using Fick's law response will be a matter of decades:

http://hanserren.cwhoutwijk.nl/co2/co2fick.xls

But it's still irrelevant as long as we have no clue what's going on.
 
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