Response to Article about Estimated Time

This was a seemingly short article that I found in the Chicago Tribune but I thought it was important because of the time range it estimated for the reversal of the significant damage we have done to the Earth. I really liked this article because it gave a factual answer and not just someone trying to give us hope that things will turn around in a few years. One thing I forgot to mention in my notes is a quote at the end that states, "It's not like air pollution where if we turn off a smokestack, in a few days the air is clear.” Basically this is telling us, there will be no quick fix. If we response and take immediate action now which we hope our new President will soon enforce, then we can begin the slow process now and not do any further harm. I hope that in my next research article I will find more of the ways of what people globally are doing on their part to halt global warming now and not risk waiting until this problem gets much more out of hand.

Study: Climate change damage is basically irreversible

Environmentalists are now saying the damaging effects of climate change are irreversible. Even if CO2 emissions were stopped this very minute the Earth won’t return to “normal” till about 3,000. This means this Earth will remain the same high temperature and continue to have damaging effects on rare plants, and melt the remaining glaciers. People imagined if CO2 emissions were halted now the Earth would stabilize in about 100 to 200 years, but this seems very unlikely. Even though it did not take us very long to harm the Earth in such a drastic way, the reversal of such damage will take at least one thousand years. Lead author of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration published these facts into the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science last week. And now many other accredited environmental scientists are agreeing with her data.