Carbon budget for 1.5°C will run out in six years at current emissions levels – new research

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[–]iamonlyoneman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

  • believes in glowbull warmening
  • doesn't know how plants cool the planet

many such cases

[–]ActuallyNot[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It looks like you need some basic education.

FYI:

The globe is warming.

https://www.climate.gov/media/15021

What do you think's going on? A conspiracy of thermometer manufacturers?

Plant's don't, in the general case, cool the planet. A mature forest is a positive forcing on the climate because the carbon released is from decomposition which includes methane, which has about 20 times the global warming effect than the same carbon in CO2 over a century.

If a forest is putting on mass, it is sequestering CO2, but that's temporary, and generally only happens if you start with no forest. (And don't have the fires that we're seeing more an more).

Boreal forests also increase global warming because they have a lower albedo than tundra.

[–]iamonlyoneman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Guess these dum-dums don't know what they're talking about eh https://www.epa.gov/heatislands/using-trees-and-vegetation-reduce-heat-islands

The planet is warming ever-so-slightly, at intervals defined by large el nino weather cycles. It is a step change followed by many years of stability. Nobody knows why this occurs, and there is no thermostat on the plane.

[–]ActuallyNot[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Guess these dum-dums don't know what they're talking about eh https://www.epa.gov/heatislands/using-trees-and-vegetation-reduce-heat-islands

No, they're correct. Obviously trees cool locally. They cast shade. They cause evapotranspiration.

It's the dum-dum who said that they cool the planet who doesn't know what he's talking about.

The planet is warming ever-so-slightly

Yeah a dum-dum who doesn't know what he's talking about might characterise the 1°C since pre-industrial times. Of course knowledgeable people like you and I know that 1.5°C was the Paris target, because that's the limit of the impacts that can be managed by adaptation. And we know that most of the remainder is in the post because only about 60% of the warming occurs in the first 25-50 years after the increase in greenhouse gasses.

It is a step change followed by many years of stability.

No, it's an accelerating warming with a random noise.

Nobody knows why this occurs

Yeah they do. That's why models match observations so precisely.