The downstream effects are also accelerated due to the rapid change of the inputs.
Normally we study climate change on the scale of 10s to 100s of millions of years.
This current change in CO2 concentration is unprecedented because it happened in the span of a century. 5-6 orders of magnitude faster than anything previously.
Normally we study climate change on the scale of 10s to 100s of millions of years.
This current change in CO2 concentration is unprecedented because it happened in the span of a century. 5-6 orders of magnitude faster than anything previously.
It's so fast, it looks like an impulse on any graph with historical data: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...