by lisa**
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science has a pretty discouraging paper out. Since it is Open Access you can read the whole thing – Irreversible climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions.
It seems that simply stopping further increases in CO2 emissions will not see the climate return to ‘normal’ anytime soon. Even if we stopped now, it might take a thousand years before all the C02 we have already burned is wrung out of the system. The effects will still be seen, including droughts throughout most of the temperate regions of the world, where most people live.
I write more at Path to Sustainable but since this report is authored by the woman who lead the expeditions to the Antarctic to investigate the ozone hole and whose data was critical for the banning of CFCs, she might be someone to listen to.
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