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Zeke Hausfather

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In other words, even if we stopped all emissions today, the world would not cool down substantially for many millennia to come.

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Zeke Hausfather's avatar Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social
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And if we ever want to bring temperatures back down when we finally get to zero CO2 emissions, we need to actively reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere by taking the we’ve previously emitted CO2 back out and keeping it out for millennia. This is the carbon debt.

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Sturm Liouville's avatar Sturm Liouville @sturmlliouville.bsky.social
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This does not account for cooling due to astronomical forcing, no? If it's *millennia* we are on the timescale of Milankovic cycles.

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