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Global Warming's Terrifying New Math

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Mad Prophet Ludwig8/02/2012 12:00:57 pm PDT

re: #110 lostlakehiker

If we get everything wrong from now forward, that’ll cost us billions of lives. The world cannot subsist in the face of back to back 50-percent crop failures across, say, N. America and China. If 1 degree is as bad as we’re now seeing, what else can we expect in a 10-degree-hotter world?

Excellent comment overall.

In answer to your question:

A 10 degree (I assume you mean F rather than C) would likely mean crossing an SO2 tipping point. That would mean a lethal percentage of our atmosphere would become SO2. This is what killed the trilobites after several thousand years of intense volcanic activity (which released CO2 at a much lower rate than were are doing right now). It would mean the death of all mammals on the Earth including us.