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To: cogitator
"Not quite accurate, WW. The climate system has a lag time of response, mainly due to the heat content of ocean water. Over millions of years in paleoclimate history, the rate of change doesn't mean much. But over centuries, it is an important variable."

Bullshit.

56 posted on 04/19/2006 12:03:09 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel)
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To: Wonder Warthog
Bullsh*t.

A new European ice age

"Stocker and Schmittner's study concludes that the severity of a disruption in thermohaline circulation brought on by global warming will depend on the rate of warming and, hence, on the rate of greenhouse gas emissions. With a well-tested, coupled atmosphere-ocean climate model they show that, at present-day rates of carbon dioxide emission, thermohaline circulation will cease altogether by the time that atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration has doubled (to 750 p.p.m.v.). However, if carbon dioxide concentration increases more slowly, circulation will merely weaken with a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration. The limits of climate models prevent exact predictions as it is impossible to include in the model all possible parameters and feedbacks. A particular source of uncertainty is change in precipitation, which is the deciding factor in thermohaline circulation shut-down."

57 posted on 04/19/2006 12:16:32 PM PDT by cogitator
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