Post #4112855
2026-07-26 11:19 UTC
Someone correct me if I am wrong. Increasingly I am hearing that we can simply aim for "Net Zero" as though as long as we stop emitting greenhouse gases everything will be fine. As I see it, the first problem with this is that climate forcing will continue for centuries with the CO2 already there - it doesn't simply stop. The second it that when a chaotic system like global weather is perturbed it will settle into a different stable state even if the perturbation is removed. 1/2
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@NovaNaturalist@cosocial.ca 2026-07-26 13:19
@tompearce49@mastodon.scot when our political leaders say "net zero by 2050" what they mean is that the floods, heat waves, wildfire and crop failures are not bad enough yet: they want them to be much worse before the case for stopping fossil fuel pollution stacks up.
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@tompearce49@mastodon.scot 2026-07-26 11:21
There is no going back to the status quo ante - the glaciers and ice caps won't refreeze, the ocean circulation will be different, weather systems will bring rain where there was drought and deserts where there was rain. We are only just at the beginning of seeing the consequences of our actions. 2/2