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Showing Original Post only (View all)We had all better hope these scientists are wrong about the planet’s future [View all]
[font size=4]...the impact of global warming will be quicker and more catastrophic than generally envisioned.[/font]
Now where have I heard that before?
An influential group of scientists led by James Hansen, the former NASA scientist often credited with having drawn the first major attention to climate change in 1988 congressional testimony, has published a dire climate study that suggests the impact of global warming will be quicker and more catastrophic than generally envisioned.
The research invokes collapsing ice sheets, violent megastorms and even the hurling of boulders by giant waves in its quest to suggest that even 2 degrees Celsius of global warming above pre-industrial levels would be far too much. Hansen has called it the most important work he has ever done.
The sweeping paper, 52 pages in length and with 19 authors, draws on evidence from ancient climate change or paleo-climatology, as well as climate experiments using computer models and some modern observations. Calling it a paper really isnt quite right its actually a synthesis of a wide range of old, and new, evidence.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/03/22/we-had-all-better-hope-these-scientists-are-wrong-about-the-planets-future/
The words "highly dangerous" were apparently removed by the editors of the journal so as not to upset people unduly.
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We had all better hope these scientists are wrong about the planet’s future [View all]
Binkie The Clown
Mar 2016
OP
I didn't want to raise that in a group that may wish to limit discussion to the environment/energy.
merrily
Mar 2016
#5
how fucking insane is it that the GOP is actually endangering the survival of humanity with their
Fast Walker 52
Mar 2016
#11
Senator Sanders completely and totally rejects the preferred route of addressing climate change...
NNadir
Mar 2016
#21
I am not kidding. The environment and climate change trump all other issues with me.
NNadir
Mar 2016
#39
I would also ask, since you claim that there is "conflicting science" on this subject...
NNadir
Mar 2016
#40
I don't read the primary scientific literature on nuclear energy/power, no.
Fast Walker 52
Mar 2016
#41
And the evidence for his "belief" is what? Since you are neither an engineer nor an energy...
NNadir
Mar 2016
#42
Bernie says he listens to the scientists on climate change... so why aren't they telling him
Fast Walker 52
Mar 2016
#43
Joe Romm is not really a primary research scientist. He's a "scientist" dragged out by...
NNadir
Apr 2016
#50
I think I made it pretty clear that I regard climate change as the issue that trumps all others.
NNadir
Mar 2016
#48
thanks-- I'm glad I'm not the only one who was having an issue with what NNadir said
Fast Walker 52
Apr 2016
#57
I'm sure he knows... but if he questioned capitalism more than he has already
Fast Walker 52
Mar 2016
#13
Capitalism is not the cause. It is a symptom of much that is defective in human nature
Binkie The Clown
Mar 2016
#20
Problem is, all those predictions have proven not as fast and not as bad as reality is showing us.
dixiegrrrrl
Mar 2016
#18
Granted, our imagination and abillity to invent appears nearly limitless. But...
Binkie The Clown
Mar 2016
#34
Climate change and the sixth global mass-extinction event is happening now
SoLeftIAmRight
Mar 2016
#46