the conversation
hrynyshyn | June 15, 2011The title of this post won't mean much until you read this contribution to The Conversation, a new and laudable attempt by climatologists to get out the message that time's a wastin,' folks. Here's a taste:
We're only a few decades away from a major tipping point, plus or minus only about a decade. The rate at which the ice sheets would melt is fairly uncertain, but not the result that says we are very close to a tipping point committing to such melt and breakdown.
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Is it irresponsible or "alarmist" of climatologists to point this out? The science brief for policy is not to prescribe…
tlambert | June 14, 2011The Conversation has launched a series of articles on climate change, introduced by editor Megan Clement here. The first three are:
Climate change is real: an open letter from the scientific community:
The overwhelming scientific evidence tells us that human greenhouse gas emissions are resulting in climate changes that cannot be explained by natural causes.
Climate change is real, we are causing it, and it is happening right now.
Like it or not, humanity is facing a problem that is unparalleled in its scale and complexity. The magnitude of the problem was given a chilling focus in the most…