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ChristianKl comments on Levels of global catastrophes: from mild to extinction - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: turchin 27 December 2015 05:26PM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 27 December 2015 10:57:16PM 0 points [-]

Most of the planet being uninhabitable means that there are still part of it that are habitable.

Comment author: turchin 27 December 2015 11:25:45PM 1 point [-]

May be it will be highest mountains after 7000 meters, which will turn from - 50 to +30 C. Wiki said that threshold for water runway warming is 47 C (at 10 per cent high solar luminosity) and if it reached, the temperature will reach 900 C in new stable state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_the_Earth#Loss_of_oceans It means that very hot earth where small highlands will still be habitable - is still in unstable condition and could have much higher global warming.