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Zeke Hausfather

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But it turns out that the warming from our CO2 emissions is also extremely long lived. Even if global CO2 emissions ceased and atmospheric CO2 concentrations began to decline, the warming from those emissions would remain for millennia: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

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The implications of this are stark and broadly under-appreciated outside of the climate science community. The warming the world experiences is in essence a largely time-invariant function of our cumulative CO2 emissions.

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