Day: July 6, 2017💾

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If we stopped emitting greenhouse gases right now, would we stop climate change?

If we stopped emitting greenhouse gases right now, would we stop climate change?

"If we stop our emissions today, we won’t go back to the past. The Earth will warm. And since the response to warming is more warming through feedbacks associated with melting ice and increased atmospheric water vapor, our job becomes one of limiting the warming. If greenhouse gas emissions are eliminated quickly enough, within a small number of decades, it will keep the warming manageable. It will slow the change – and allow us to adapt. Rather than trying to recover the past, we need to be thinking about best possible futures."

Map: Green Mountain National Forest North
Map: Debar Pond