If somehow global temperatures magically did not increase and remained as they are today, ice sheets and permafrost would still continue to melt onward for centuries. Thus, the release of methane caused by decomposition of ancient vegetative matter freed by permafrost melt would also continue on. This means that greenhouse gas levels would still continue to increase at an undetermined rate even if all carbon emissions went to zero. And this doesn’t even factor in the release of methane from the liquefying of oceanic methane hydrate. The release of so much methane could trigger an increased greenhouse response.
This means that a decrease in the current levels of CO2 in the biosphere is necessary to achieve a status quo.
https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/climatescience/greenhousegases/whichgases.html
Any belief that carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and other gases released by our Industrial Age activities are not greenhouse gases is the result of wishful thinking.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wishful_thinking
This said, I would liked to have been able to leave these wishful thinkers in their bubble of naïveté, but they are needed. They are needed to help save the world from a fiery death — an ending brought on by the ponderous progression of temperature increases that are already “beginning” to make themselves known. Temperature increases brought on by our own human activities.
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2017/02/some-notes-on-the-worst-case-s.html
Failure to act upon this is the unnecessary giving up on both our progeny and all life on Earth. Failure to act is blasphemy — a desecration of God’s green Earth.
https://earthministry.org/faith-statements/
