CellBioGuy comments on Crazy Global Warming Solution Ideas - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CellBioGuy 25 October 2015 12:09:50AM *  2 points [-]

Rate of change is the big thing, not necessarily absolute level.

The closest analog for what's going on now and will probably continue to go on for ~100,000 years is the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene%E2%80%93Eocene_Thermal_Maximum . Though we may be altering the atmosphere up to two orders of magnitude faster than that one did.