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Just to be clear, the carbon in the atmosphere is at a 15 million year high. So, no.
If you want to know what's really been happening to carbon emissions and air pollution as a result of the pandemic, and what that means for us long-term, I unpack it here:
And how do we know we're at a 15-million-year high? Thanks to the field of paleoclimatology that uses ice cores, sediment records, stalactites in caves, and many more fascinating ways to track the earth's history. Learn more here: ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/pa…
Not only that, but paleoclimatology shows us just how enormous and unprecedented an experiment we're conducting with the only home we have. As far back as we can go there has NEVER been this much carbon going into the atmosphere this fast. Source: science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/4/
(after Volume 1 of the Fourth US National Climate Asst was published, new research updated the number in the figure to at least 100 million years)
As @bobkopp and I write here, "regardless of our ignorance when humans first began this planetary experiment, today we are now very cognizant of the climate debt that we have incurred and which we will be paying for centuries and even millennia to come." iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…
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