re: #259 freetoken

The following article in Nature Communications received a little attention, but not much:

Committed sea-level rise under the Paris Agreement and the legacy of delayed mitigation action

It’s actually bad news.

First, in reality the limits proposed in the Paris Agreement are not going to be reached.

But even if the most aggressive limits are met, as noted with keeping net GHG emissions at zero for a full two and a half centuries, the warming we have already bought will cause sea level to rise about 1.3 meters over a couple of centuries.

Sadly, even the the tame attempts at limits laid out in the Paris Agreement are not being taken seriously by the US, or Russia, or really OPEC. If the owners of the major carbon deposits don’t want to stop fossil fuel production, then the resultant sea level rises will be much higher than if we had made an earnest attempt at mitigation.

We’re going to melt Greenland and Antarctica right down to bedrock in my lifetime, aren’t we? And probably fire the clathrate gun that ensures Venus is our future too.