Reply #83: I understand there is approximately a 40 year gestation period

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with the global greenhouse gasses so even if we stopped egregious amounts of pollution today their is this lag time such that the gasses would still be building up. is this true? If so are we only seeing the beginning? does this mean we will be experiencing the effects of todays pollution in 40 years?

I know we are blowing way more CO2 into atmosphere now than in the 50s 60s etc.

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