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NNadir

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5. It is very likely that there will be a future generation that will never see 500 ppm again.

Reply to hatrack (Reply #4)

Sat Jan 11, 2025, 11:17 AM

Jan 2025

I have put together a very crude model of a quadratic equation from the data at Mauna Loa which suggests that we will pass 500 ppm around 2046. I'll be dead then, but I expect the survivors will hate my generation for what we did to them.

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It is very likely that there will be a future generation that will never see 500 ppm again. NNadir Jan 2025 #5