In a recent discussion called ["feedbacks, runaway, and tipping points"](https://andthentheresphysics.wordpress.com/2020/02/01/feebacks-runaway-and-tipping-points/) I linked to a concise derivation of how climate set-points are reached based on what we published last year.
This is a fun derivation for anyone interested in reducing well-known relations to a quadratic equation, with the two solutions giving the low-T snowball-earth and the high-T current regime. In other words, the positive feed back of CO2-catalyzed warming does not lead to a thermal runaway.
There's a geologist on the comments that apparently called it a curve-fit and the discussion went downhill from there. I wouldn't dare talk plate tectonics on that blog :)
This is a fun derivation for anyone interested in reducing well-known relations to a quadratic equation, with the two solutions giving the low-T snowball-earth and the high-T current regime. In other words, the positive feed back of CO2-catalyzed warming does not lead to a thermal runaway.
There's a geologist on the comments that apparently called it a curve-fit and the discussion went downhill from there. I wouldn't dare talk plate tectonics on that blog :)
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