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wtmusic

(39,166 posts)
Mon Jan 30, 2012, 12:20 PM Jan 2012

The Titanic Syndrome: Climate change will never get that bad because, well, it just couldn't.



Ha! Another "doomer" putting on a life vest:

"The future of human kind faces dire consequences due to arguably the first signs of dangerous climate change in the Arctic, say leading international scientists from The University of Western Australia.

They say the Arctic region is fast approaching a series of imminent "tipping points" that could trigger an abrupt domino effect of large-scale climate change across the entire planet.

In a paper published in the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' journal AMBIO and a parallel commentary in Nature Climate Change, the lead author and Director of the University's Oceans Institute, Winthrop Professor Carlos Duarte, said the Arctic region contained arguably the greatest concentration of potential tipping elements for global climate change. "

http://insciences.org/article.php?article_id=10653
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The Titanic Syndrome: Climate change will never get that bad because, well, it just couldn't. (Original Post) wtmusic Jan 2012 OP
Interesting article...well worth a read.. truebrit71 Jan 2012 #1
They missed the obvious solution... TreasonousBastard Jan 2012 #2

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
2. They missed the obvious solution...
Mon Jan 30, 2012, 12:43 PM
Jan 2012

Reduced Arctic ice and increased fresh water from glacial melt could reverse the Gulf Stream, thereby reversing global warming and starting a new Ice Age.

Problem solved.

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