Posted on 09/15/2014 11:00:01 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
That slowdown is a scenario that would oddly lead to dramatic coastal cooling and was featured in the 2004 movie The Day After Tomorrow.
Study co-author Richard Alley of Pennsylvania State University compared the threat of abrupt climate change effects to the random danger of drunken drivers.
“You can’t see it coming, so you can’t prepare for it. The faster it is, the less you see it coming, the more it costs,” Alley told The Associated Press. “If you see the drunk driver coming, you can get out of the way.”
The scientists said the issue of sudden changes is full of uncertainties, so the world can better prepare by monitoring places like Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets more. But because of budget cuts and aging satellites, researchers have fewer measurements of these crucial indicators than they did a few years ago and will have even fewer in upcoming years, study co-author Steven Wofsy of Harvard University said.
The panel called on the government to create an early warning system.
“The time is here to be serious about the threat of tipping points so as to better anticipate and prepare ourselves for the inevitable surprises,” said the report by the research arm of the federal government, which enlists independent scientists to look at major issues.
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>>> Are they evil enough to try to foist this on us so they can turn us into their dream: a third world cesspool? <<<
That one.
Study warns of ____________ just fill in the blank!
A study of the ___________ warns that _____________ can cause ______________ and cost ______________ and kill _________ and if we don’t act now _________ _______ ________!
the better money would be spent on making more things simply sturdier and more resilient to the effects of possible “tipping point” conditions, which would likely by default make them better in other ways, like energy use, & sustainability in storms & flooding generally
and, with regard to flooding & regardless of “tipping point” conditions, the better money would NOT be spent “protecting & rebuilding” places that WITHOUT any “tipping point” conditions are often and frequently in harms way of storms and flooding, would be to discourage growth and rebuilding in such places and in the constantly hardest hits areas to buy the owners out & revert the land to the “buffers” to settlements they used to be - which would by default also make things better (less in harms way) IF any “tipping point” condition developed
I would sooner believe that a tornado can suck up and spew out sharks than the scenario depicted in TDAT.
It’s not what these morons have in mind, but if you look at the Antarctic ice core data the descent into an ice age is much faster than the climb out. The impact of the next ice age on our civilization is truly a scary prospect.
It’s called a heat sink and it is ten degrees warmer.
“The panel called on the government to create an early warning system.”
It will be called the “CLEWS” (The Chicken Little Early Warning System).
There is already something in existence that could be called a CLEWS, see UN IPPC Assessment Reports. They have a lot of Chicken Littles, issue a lot of “early warnings” and think of it as a system, sort of.
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