"Greenhouse-gas emissions could soon trigger a dangerous chain reaction from which the Earth might not be able to return, even if global temperatures later stabilize. This so-called irreversible hothouse trajectory happens when key Earth systems, such as oceans, ice sheets and forests, are pushed past tipping points. What typically took thousands of years is now happening in decades."

Meanwhile, in other news...

"The Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has revoked the ‘endangerment finding’ — the conclusion that it can regulate greenhouse gases because they endanger public health and wellbeing. At the same time, it repealed emissions standards for vehicles — something that, by several estimates, will add billions of tonnes of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere in the coming decades. Rules for power plants might be next. Many environmental groups plan to sue, but regardless of how the law views it in the end, several years of regulatory action will be lost."

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11022026/earth-unprecedented-shift-from-warm-to-hot/

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