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I went to the People's Climate March in New York City on Sept. 21. It was great to see 400,000 people geared up to make change happen - change for human and organic survival. There was peace in the crowd, a model for the world. There was urgency, too.
I heard a term, “decade zero,” meant to identify the immediate period after climate change reaches the tipping point, the marker in time after which no amount of carbon reduction will stop the seas from rising.
Global warming is currently unleashing millions of tons of methane from thawing tundra in the Arctic, Antarctic, Greenland, northern Asia, Alaska, and Canada, terrain previously capped by glaciers for hundreds of millennia.
At a certain tipping point, so much carbon will be in the atmosphere due to the combination of human carbon release and collateral methane release that reductions of human carbon will have no effect on warming. From then on, the seas will rise, category 5 storms will rage, floods and droughts will dominate, and people will try to adjust.
