Comments by "Nash Hinton" (@NashHinton) on "Heatwaves ravage Asia, climate protesters disrupt Berlin | DW News" video.

  1. The only way to avoid human extinction at this point is solar geoengineering. Even if we stopped all emissions, temperatures will keep going up due to melting permafrost.
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  2.  @hamish1309  Data doesn't lie.
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  3. There is another way out of it, and that is rapid depopulation from nuclear war and cooling from nuclear winter.
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  4. If we stopped all emissions now, temperatures will immediately go up to 3 degrees by 2100 due to decline in aerosols from pollution. It will be 6 degrees by 2500. The last time the Earth was at 420 ppm of co2 was during the Miocene, when the Earth was 6 degrees warmer. Since it takes 500 years for the equilibrium (long term) temperature to be reached, we should be at 6 degrees by 2500 years (once you adjust for albedo from melting ice, which takes time). Pollution is actually cooling the planet down by 1 degrees C. It's called global dimming.
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  5. And this isn't even including tipping points from permafrost, drying peatlands (which has two times more co2 stored than permafrost), thawing clathrates.
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  6.  @hamish1309  And it takes a while for ice ages to happen. Things don't freeze overnight. The peak of the next glacial period is 40,000 years from now.
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  7. Needs to happen. I have my bunker.
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  8.  @hamish1309  Glacial period is supposed to happen 40,000 years later.
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  9.  @hamish1309  The last ice age ended 20,000-10,000 years ago.
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