phdoofus t1_ir6jq3z wrote
Another factor playing in to other answers is that even if we cut off additional CO2 production *today* the oceans have so much additional heat stored in them from the last 100+ years of fossil fuel burning that the atmospheric temperatures would continue to rise for several hundred years.
CrateDane t1_ir6oln0 wrote
Well, one "good" thing about the oceans is that they still lag behind on equilibrating with the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, so in the absence of more emissions the oceans would actually suck a fair bit of CO2 out of the atmosphere.
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