UndercoverElephant wrote:fifthcolumn wrote:UndercoverElephant wrote:A global rise of six degrees is probably enough to set off a chain-reaction "methane burp". In other words, as soon as you get into this sort of territory, six degrees can rapidly become ten and we are talking about a mass extinction on a Permian-Triassic scale: 90% of species lost. To stand any decent chance of avoiding this outcome we need to keep the global rise below five degrees.
Interesting then, that 14500 years ago we got a 22F rise in less than a decade
22 degrees FAHRENHEIT? Do people still measure things in Fahrenheit?
They're called Americans. They also use feet, pounds, miles etc in science and engineering (as well as just ordinary conversation) which I find kind-of odd, but there you go.
