Study warns of sudden climate change woes

Agri News / AP ^ | 9-11-2014

[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.

[Citizen Zed]

They don't know but they do know. It is happening slow but the change will be fast and without warning. So we need an early warning system to alert us too late.

[GraceG]

Moron Gorebull warmers live in cities and cities are on average a few degrees warmer than the countryside....

SO from their apartments they think the earth is warming... morons...

Large columns of warmer rising air from city/metro areas rise up and affect jetstreams...

But the libs live in cities and wouldn’t want to tear down their precious cities, so they blame bubba in the country and his “ESSS....YEW....VEEEE” as al gore sez it...

[Paladin2]

Is this more Mannian PSU K|~@|)?

Have they convicted PSU's former Prezzy yet?

[afsnco]

The questions are:
1. Are they stupid enough to believe the claptrap that spews from their mouths? Or,
2. Are they evil enough to try to foist this on us so they can turn us into their dream: a third world cesspool?

[beethovenfan]

So we can’t prepare for it, so let’s not worry and go have a beer.

[rktman]

If not for all the money involved, folks would simply adapt to the changes like they did for thousands of years. Now, too much money at stake.

[silverleaf]

I'm from the obama government and me and my buddies in the UN have a plan!

lets use government regulations to make energy so expensive people can't use much plus we get energy taxes from them to fund our luxurious lifestyles of jetting around lecturing and guilting wealthy people into going along or even joining us = rationing by income

Then let's shut down energy producing power plants mines well etc so there is even less energy available for people to buy = rationing by scarcity

now lets give billions or trillion in govt contracts to our wealthy buddies and donors to build inefficient and nearly useless solar and wind energy farms

Now everyone will be ready for the sudden onset of the next mini ice age!

Some of the little people will freeze or die of heat or die from starvation

but hey = population control by global elitist designs

[sauropod]

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[Williams]

Having seen The Day After Tomorrow, they lost me immediately after saying this effect was depicted in the film.

The film basically has the United States in an ice age times 10 in about 24 hours.

[rusureitflies?]

Latest Weather Channel Headline: “GORE’S GLOBAL FLATULENCE READY TO ROAR!”

[TexasFreeper2009]

These Climate Change hoaxsters need to be pressed for what evidence would prove them wrong!

EXACTLY what would have to happen for you to reexamine your belief that the earth is warming and it is caused by man?

Press them! don’t let them off the hook!

Since it seems no matter what happens, it’s proof they are right.

[PATRIOT1876]

“If you see the scam artist trying to convince you that man-made global warming is real then you can see him coming, you can get out of the way.”

[PATRIOT1876]

“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, including devastating taxes, fines, and loss of almost all freedom in the name of the AGW Hoax.”

[Paladin2]

"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. "

More funding Mr. Scott....

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I promise, if the day comes that Houston is frozen, I will admit to this bullhockey...until then, if you live in the north, prepare for winter.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I love a good disaster film.... The Day AFter tomorrow sucked, which made it kind of fun to watch, but it sucked..

[who_would_fardels_bear]

What we seem to have been learning over the past decade or so is that the earth has many more buffering systems than we had originally thought which tend to keep the climate system in balance.

This guy is basically saying that given that we have all of these buffering systems, rather than guessing that in the future we will find even more, he'll just guess that some magical mystery event will occur that will outrun all of these buffering mechanisms leading to massive climate change.

This is science?

[A CA Guy]

I hear the Antarctic has a huge amount of new ice.

[Gay State Conservative]

Is this the study of 2014...or of 1995...or of 1965? All three predicted disaster within years.

[txrefugee]

Oh, we’ll know when the next ice age comes. That’s when the famines will begin.