Just Stopping Emissions May No Longer Be Enough to Stop Global Warming

Drpatelbit
5 min readNov 14, 2020

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Researchers argue that it’s time to invest in aggressive carbon capture

Ice melts on tundra and thawing permafrost in Newtok, Alaska. Photo: The Washington Post/Getty Images

Earlier this year, the Earth saw a huge dip in carbon emissions as nations around the globe locked down to slow the spread of the coronavirus. It offered a glimpse into what the world might look like if we took drastic steps to reduce our carbon emissions to slow the spread of global warming: For a brief moment, smog-choked cities around the world had clear skies.

But according to a new modeling study published in Scientific Reports today, even if we made such drastic reductions permanent, it would still not be enough. The study suggests that if we stopped all human-made greenhouse gas emissions immediately, the Earth’s temperatures would continue to rise

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http://mhc.hseland.ie/fog/o-v-a1.html because of self-sustaining melting ice and permafrost. These “feedback loops” — in which melting ice causes less sunlight to be reflected back into space, which in turn raises temperatures and causes more ice melt — have already been set into motion, the researchers argue. …

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