NY Times: Best & Worst Cases
Over the weekend, the NY Times published a piece by Curt Stager — a professor of natural sciences at Paul Smith’s College.
Prof. Stager’s opening salvo:
The cleanup (of the carbon already in the atmosphere) will take tens of thousands of years even if we switch quickly to renewable energy sources.
When the Earth’s slow cyclic tilting and wobbling along its eccentric orbital path once again leads to a major cooling period some 50,000 years from now, enough of our heat-trapping carbon emissions will still remain in the atmosphere to warm the planet just enough to weaken that chill.
Holy Smokes, Batman … 50,000 years
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But, not to worry, Prof. Stager serves up a best case scenario…
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