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peacenlove said..
One big thing that the Net Zero Cultists don't want to talk about is the Earth's ability to find equilibrium.
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Yes, this is negative feedback and it;s a great regulator.
Unfortunately there is also positive feed back, and that's the opposite.
The warmer it gets, the more ice melts.
Causing less energy reflected back to space, so it gets warmer.
Also causes the permafrost to melt, releasing another stored greenhouse gas, causing it to get warmer still.
As oceans are getting warmer, polar ice is decreasing and habit is moving to cooler areas, it seems positive feedback is winning!
This equilibrium you speak of, in chaos theory, is called a "strange attracter".
You can change the input to chaotic systems by small increments, and it makes hardly any difference. But suddenly another small change will flip the system into a totally new pattern.
Weather and climate are chaotic systems, we don't know enough about them to predict how close we are to this tipping point.
But possible, this current slow change could suddenly become something quite different.