Post #2529538 · Elektrine

2026-01-11 18:11 UTC

@ShadSterling@mastodon.social @yokofakun@genomic.social If we stopped greenhouse emissions today, the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere would immediately start dropping as especially CO2 would be drawn down into solution in the ocean. Perhaps counter-intuitively, this will immediately fix the temperature to a constant value. https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/climate-change-will-stop-when-we

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@martinvermeer@fediscience.org 2026-01-11 18:36

@ShadSterling@mastodon.social @yokofakun@genomic.social Note that this is about the Earth surface temperature, relevant for us humans and most living things. The deep ocean would continue to slowly warm for a long time.

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@ShadSterling@mastodon.social 2026-01-11 18:58

@martinvermeer@fediscience.org @yokofakun@genomic.social I don’t see your claim in the link, but it sounds like you’re saying that the concentrations of CO₂ in the atmosphere and ocean are far out of equilibrium, and would rapidly approach equilibrium by CO₂ moving into the ocean. If that rate hasn’t been keeping up with emissions already I don’t see why it would catch up quickly. But I suppose the idea does illustrate that I’d have to say more to justify treating that reference as a floor

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