Three-page Article from Fortune Magazine, 9Feb04 Issue...
'CLIMATE COLLAPSE - The Pentagon's Weather Nightmare - The Climate could Change Radically, and Fast. That would be the Mother of all National Security issues.'
By David Stipp
Excerpts:...
'Global warming may be bad news for future generations...In fact, the prospect has become so real that the Pentagon's strategic planners are grappling with it.
The threat that has riveted their attention is this: Global warming, rather than causing gradual, centuries-spanning change, may be pushing the climate to a tipping point. Growing evidence suggests the ocean-atmosphere system that controls the world's climate can lurch from one state to another in less than a decade
Over the past decade, data have accumulated suggesting that the plausibility of abrupt climate change is higher than most of the scientific community, and perhaps all of the political community, are prepared to accept...after studying temperature indicators embedded in ancient layers of Arctic ice,...the data show that a number of dramatic shifts in average temperature took place in the past with shocking speed—in some cases, just a few years...'
Other related scientific-based Links
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute - 'Abrupt Climate Change' - Current Links
- 'THE NEXT ICE AGE' - Web Site & book by Robert Felix
- 'Celestial Mechanics - Solving the Puzzle of The Ice Ages' - Environmental Geology Slides by Prof. Ray Joesten, U of Conn