Global warming might not happen quite as fast as we thought

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/17/plants-absorb-carbon-dioxide-photosynthesis-trinity-college/

by elorant • 3 years ago

23 27 3 years ago

telegraph.co.uk

gardenfelder2• 3 years ago

Better view of same story:

https://phys.org/news/2023-11-absorb-co2-human-previously.ht...

gardenfelder2• 3 years ago

The paper itself:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh9444

GravityLab• 3 years ago

This is awesome news. Sounds like we not only have more runway than expected but also obtain more than expected with every tree and shrub we plant.

jsilence• 3 years ago

Hoping that future drought events don't have a massive impact on forests. The 2018 drought in Germany already induced some heat and drought stress on trees. If the trees die, they will not take up 20% more CO2.

spking• 3 years ago

https://archive.ph/rTIDU

secretsatan3• 3 years ago

That’s weird phrasing from a paper that declared it all a hoax

pavel_lishin2• 3 years ago

- "Global warming isn't real."

- "Global warming is real, but not caused by humans."

- "Global warming is real and caused by humans, but it's not that bad."

- "Global warming is real, caused by humans, pretty bad, but it won't happen as fast as we think."

secretsatan3• 3 years ago

Progress i suppose

euroderf• 3 years ago

- "Global warming is real, caused by humans, pretty bad, but it's far enough along that nowadays we can pretend to feel bad about it while we continue to cozy up to our terraforming reptilian overlords."

Moldoteck• 3 years ago

I may end up sounding like that meme with old pepperidge guy, but I remember when during my childhood almost every winter meant heavy snow and it wasn't that easy to go where you need, but nowadays we barely get any snow at all...

rad_gruchalski• 3 years ago

And Greenland is called Greenland because Vikings had a great sense of humour.

atoav• 3 years ago

Every evidence I have seen so far points to the conclusion that it indeed might not happen as fast as we think: it might happen faster.

addicted• 3 years ago

Yeah, there’s a lot of evidence that we may have grossly underestimated the feedback effects.

On the flip side, we also underestimated the ability to switch to renewable sources (predictions of the cost and spread of renewable energy have been far too pessimistic going back 2 decades even though these estimates over the past decade or so adjusted for the fact that they were too pessimistic). Further, we’ve already started showing growth without using more energy which shows the tremendous efficiency improvements we’ve been able to make, and was something that wasn’t even considered possible.

IOW, global warming is likely worse than we thought, but our ability to fight global warming and the actions we’ve already taken are also much better than most imagined. Which is why it’s so frustrating that we continue to not go big on many of the options to fight global warming that we have available to us.

acdha• 3 years ago

I’d also add that many of the changes have enormous clear wins for other reasons: fossil fuels are nasty, so even if global warming just disappeared in some sci-fi miracle we’d still save millions of lives annually and improve quality of life by not having internal combustion engines or methane gas appliances. Improving bike & transit infrastructure would make large populations healthier and save everyone a ton of money, etc.

proc04• 3 years ago

Well it's not happening fast enough for most climate change alarmists to consider building nuclear power. If it's such a threat surely we would trade nuclear waste problems for climate change.

amanaplanacanal• 3 years ago

Nuclear appears to have two problems: it takes so long to build reactors that their solution comes too late, and they are way more expensive than renewables. I don’t have a problem with nuclear, but if wind (or solar) and storage is faster and cheaper, why bother?

Turskarama• 3 years ago

People aren't interested in building nuclear because it's slower and more expensive than building renewables + storage.

devwastaken• 3 years ago

The climate death spiral says otherwise. The numbers are only going up, not down.

Global warming might not happen quite as fast as we thought

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