Beyond Tomorrow: Earth's distant climate future
What happens after we stop emitting and changing our climate? Will things go back to normal, or will the global warming and climate changes we've caused stick around long into the future? And what does this mean for the consequences of climate change - from sea level rise to extreme weather? I take a look at what could happen thousands of years from now, and what that means about the choices that we make today.
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==MORE INFO==
Impact on glacial cycles (delays 50k year glacial):
https://esd.copernicus.org/articles/1...
Looking at warming in the pipeline (fig 3 looks out to 1000 years):
https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/17...
Lifetime of CO2 in the atmosphere
https://www.annualreviews.org/content...
https://www.nature.com/articles/clima...
https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploa... [Box 6.1]
Tipping point paper (lots on ice sheets and multi-millenial stuff):
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...
Paper looking out to 10k years:
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/dsc...
IPCC AR6: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/
Section 4.7.1.2 - possibilities thousands of years out
Table 9.10 - discusses Sea Level Rise
Older paper looking at this question
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19179...
==CREDITS==
Supercomputer footage from ANU TV
Perpetual ocean from Nasa Goddard
Ice age simulation from IPRC Hawaii
Power plant demolition from R S Creator
Climate strike footage from 350.org