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by pjerem 1808 days ago
Because if it’s somewhat true to say that stopping CO2 emissions would rapidly pause climate change, there is no short term « reverse » (in hundreds of years) of the climate.

We are in such a situation that every +0.01°C increase in global warming is gained more or less indefinitely.

The only thing we can do is stopping net emissions and learn to live with the climate as it is when we achieve this.

We really don’t care a lot about concentrations going down in the next centuries because by the time it happens, the harm would be done already for multiple centuries.

We are really facing today, 50°C in summer and devastating events, for our generation and our kids. This precise battle is already lost but we must fight for it to not be even more dramatic.