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"You can calculate the amount of carbon that can be dumped into theFor a look at consequences, please take a look at *Theme Issue 'Four degrees
environment before it leads to utter catastrophe, such as the end of
civilization as we know it, or possibly extinction of the human
species. This is a finite number, on the order of 500 gigatons."
The remainder your post is a very interesting discussion of how to
deal with this starting assumption. I wonder if you could expand on
how you come to this initial point.
* What specific "utter catastrophe" do you foresee happening after the
next 500 GT of carbon is burned (on the order of 50 years at current
rates) that could kill the human race?