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What many people also miss is that temperature growth doesn't trend with CO2 levels, aka exponential CO2 growth only results in linear temperature growth.

Therefore we are actually in a much better situation than we think. If increase C02 levels by say 5% in the next 50 years, temperates won't rise 5%




Source? Adding or removing insulation can approximately linearly increase/decrease temperatures.

The greenhouse effect is significantly more complicated, but at 0.04% it seems likely we are in a fairly linear range.




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