[ClearCase_guy]

Do they know what a “tipping point” is?

I think they use the phrase as “a point I’d rather not get to”.

But I consider a tipping point to be a point beyond which things happen much faster and much more uncontrollably. Will we see that? Any day now? Because if things visibly and incontrovertibly spin out of control next month, a lot of naysayers will be convinced.

But it’s all BS, so there is no “tipping point”.

[palmer]

Yes, correct. The process has to be significant and accelerating. The alarmists are always painting dire curves onto data, e.g. a parabolic decline in Greenland ice. Then it turns out the loss is linear. Then last summer they put out a paper showing the loss is 6 times greater than 2003 or something like that (it was forgettable).

What they always leave out is the natural gains and losses and changes. There was more loss of Greenland's ice in the 1920's, based on the retreat of the glacier termination points. There was a huge amount of loss in the mid Holocene (about 5-6000 years ago).

[wjcsux]

I lost count of how many times they have told us that the “tipping point” was close. You would think that we should have gotten to it in the 40+ years that they have been warning us.