Reply #10: It's a possible titration point.

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Global Warming might not be gradual at all.

It might be rather sudden, withing a year or two, ten at most, once a certain sequence of events happens.

There is an immense amount of carbon stored in forests and in the oceans... if enough climate change happens to even just begin the release of this stored carbon... then you can have a runaway global reaction and untold billions of tons of carbon could make it's way to the atmosphere... and we would have NO time to react and possibly no way to reverse it or stop it. Even if we turned off every car and power plant. And that's how the race of humans passes from the scene, much like dinosaurs before us.