If we stopped emitting greenhouse gases now could we stop climate change?

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July 16, 2017 at 7:20 am #71011

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Link: https://cosmosmagazine.com/climate/if-we-stopped-emitting-greenhouse-gases-right-now-would-we-stop-climate-change

July 16, 2017 at 11:25 am #71022

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nittany ram wrote:

https://cosmosmagazine.com/climate/if-we-stopped-emitting-greenhouse-gases-right-now-would-we-stop-climate-change

If we stop our emissions today, we won’t go back to the past. The Earth will warm. And since the response to warming is more warming through feedbacks associated with melting ice and increased atmospheric water vapor, our job becomes one of limiting the warming. If greenhouse gas emissions are eliminated quickly enough, within a small number of decades, it will keep the warming manageable and the Paris Agreement goals could be met. It will slow the change – and allow us to adapt. Rather than trying to recover the past, we need to be thinking about best possible futures.
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