The "HOW SOON?" Question

Some accounts talk in a timescale of tens or hundreds of years for the major impact of increased carbon dioxide levels. Other accounts are stressing that in some regions serious effects are already being experienced.

It may be comforting to take the mid-point of a wide range of climate model patterns but they do not take into account 'tipping points' after which changes are expected to be more rapid and irreversible.

The public will have to establish a point at which further damage is unacceptable before governments can formulate policy and act.

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Sources

  1. 100 months to avoid disaster 20/08/08
  2. Glacier Melt hits Record Rate UN says 16/03/08
  3. Sooner and Even Worse for USA
  4. IPCC Summary for North America 20/06/07
  5. Faster than ever
  6. North Korea Indicates World Disaster 20/06/08
  7. Arctic Ice More Vulnerable to Sunny Weather 22/04/08
  8. Tipping Points Study 05/02/08
  9. Varying Arctic Predictions 2008 14/02/08 - my bet, gone by 2020!
  10. Melting Ice Causes Earthquakes 08/09/07
  11. Climate Models Improve 11/08/07
  12. 9 Tipping Points
  13. 10000 years become one day
  14. Worse than the current gloomy predictions
  15. NASA Warning and the loss of species
  16. More rapidly than you think
  17. African Food Production to halve by 2020 25/09/07
  18. Hansen Warns of Sea Level Danger 22/08/07
  19. Models v Observations
  20. Smallest Arctic Icecap ever on 17/08/07 and getting smaller
  21. California Soon
  22. Arizona Trees Animals Stressed
  23. Methane Balances Explained 28/09/06
  24. American SW Dustbowl
  25. Climate Uncertainty
  26. Sea Level
  27. Feedback loops accelerate warming
  28. Will reducing emissions be enough?
  29. 2100 now
  30. New York Sea Level


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