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Global Warming Irreversible, NOAA Scientist Finds
Tibor the Hun writes "NPR reports that Susan Solomon, one of the world's top climate scientists, finds in her new study that global warming is now irreversible. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, concludes that even if we could immediately cease our impact on pollution and greenhouse gasses emissions, global climate change would continue for more than a thousand years. The reason is the saturation of oceans with carbon dioxide. Her study looked at the consequences of long-term effect in terms of sea-level rise and drought."
The easiest process is to just leave the carbon as carbon in the first place, but we seem to be unable to handle even that.
Every breath you take you exhale carbon dioxide. So, show us how it goes big guy - leave carbon as carbon and stop breathing.
I do. Unfortunately, it seems some people desperately need a cause to fight for; the concrete cause is irrelevant, it is the fight that intoxicates them. Global warming, global winter, whatever...
Volcano's and Asteroids have put *way* more heat out than the atomic explosions we humans have set off.
Only because we've had relative peace between atomic-capable nations. We have more than enough firepower to sterilize the planet, several times.
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
If you read some books on complexity and chaos theory you will find that chaotic systems have a high degree of unpredictability.
That's incorrect. What's difficult to predict is the evolution of the chaotic system over specific time periods. However, all chaotic systems (note that they're not random) exhibit inflexion points, attractors and other super structures that make it possible to predict future behavior patterns within a certain boundary.
That's where the difference is between weather and climate: weather is the path that a chaotic system takes over a specific time period. Climate is the general trend that a chaotic system exhibits - and those can very easily be modeled, analyzed and used to make predictions.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, sue.