The Other Hurricane: Has the Age of Chaos Begun?

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

By Mike Davis

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1007-20.htm

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If they are right, then we are living on the climate equivalent of a runaway train that is picking up speed as it passes the stations marked "Altithermal" and "Eemian." "Outside the envelope," moreover, means that we are not only leaving behind the serendipitous climatic parameters of the Holocene -- the last 10,000 years of mild, warm weather that have favored the explosive growth of agriculture and urban civilization -- but also those of the late Pleistocene that fostered the evolution of Homo sapiens in eastern Africa.

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Damn!

[mike_c]

1. kicked and nominated-- this is a MUST READ....

EXCELLENT article-- please keep this bumped for the morning crowd.

[Tace]

2. Nothing To See Here... Just Move Along

This is the real deal.

[Petrushka]

3. Bump!

[RONSTOO]

4. are you a psychic?

or just a nano second in the blip of history ?
In the span of time you are absolutely nothing. To scale it ( and I work with scales ) you are Nothing. ( No insult intended).

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

5. It's a bit late...

...I'm a bit tired, and I'm afraid I've missed your point. If you'd care to clarify/expand on it, I'll be happy to respond. Thanks.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

6. Funny you should ...

...mention this, so happens I was voted most likely to amount to "Nothing" by my high school senior class.

[bananas]

7. pdf of "Arctic System on Trajectory to New, Seasonally Ice-Free State"

The pdf of the paper referenced in the article can be downloaded free.

http://paos.colorado.edu/~dcn/index.php

http://paos.colorado.edu/~dcn/reprints/Overpeck_etal_EOS2005_ABSTRACT.html

Overpeck et al., Arctic System on Trajectory to New, Seasonally Ice-Free State

Overpeck, J. T., M. Sturm, J. A. Francis, D. K. Perovich, M. C. Serreze, R. Benner, E. C. Carmack, F. S. Chapin III, S. C. Gerlach, L. C. Hamilton, L. D. Hinzman, M. Holland, H. P. Huntington, J. R. Key, A. H. Lloyd, G. M. MacDonald, J. McFadden, D. Noone, T. D. Prowse, P. Schlosser, and C. Vörösmarty

Abstract

The Arctic system is moving toward a new state that falls outside the envelope of glacial-interglacial fluctuations that prevailed during recent Earth history. This future Arctic is likely to have dramatically less permanent ice than exists at present. At the present rate of change, a summer ice-free Arctic Ocean within a century is a real possibility, a state not witnessed for at least a million years. The change appears to be driven largely by feedback-enhanced global climate warming, and there seem to be few, if any, processes or feedbacks within the Arctic system that are capable of altering the trajectory toward this "super interglacial" state.

Citation: Overpeck et al., Arctic System on Trajectory to New, Seasonally Ice-Free State EOS, 86(34), 309,312-313.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

8. Thank you for chasing it down. nt.

[1democracy]

9. Seems like the future is a lot like Hell

of our own making.

[bemildred]

10. Of course it has.

We have given the spinning top a good thump with our thumb,
and there is no telling where it will spin off to now, or
when and where it will settle down again.

[mom cat]

11. I believe that the neo cons know that this is true, have taken steps to

"save" themselves and are just in the process of milking humanity for their last dime before the inevitable end for most of us...I just hope that their buying up the land over the worls's biggest aquifers is to no avail and that whatever they unleash will get them too!

[gristy]

12. Some of them, yes.

This is their last-ditch effort to get out in front before the collapse.
Many of the others are confusing environmental collapse with the Rapture, but their response is similar.

[althecat]

13. Very good indeedy...

[althecat]

14. Here's a pic of Catarina

[althecat]

15. & a map - Catarina is very close to Porte Allegro