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To: Lane3 who wrote (193618)1/26/2007 3:02:28 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 793956
 
The problem with the tipping point idea applied to this particular controversy, is that its used a device to shut down any argument about the need for more data. "We can't wait for more evidence that there will be a huge amount of global warming or that it will have disastrous consequences, because by then we will have already passed the tipping point and it will be too late".

Really that problem isn't limited to global warming. Global warming is just perhaps the clearest and more frequent example of it.

Tipping points are very frequently, probably most of the time very unsure things (esp. inter terms of where the tipping point is, but even in terms of "is there some irreversible tipping point?", even when the underlying problem and the reasons for having a tipping point are well understood.
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