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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: epicure who wrote (250964)5/24/2014 10:41:33 AM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (3) of 541319
 
"oops, we were too optimistic"

Been like that since at least '07. Deniers don't want to understand that the "alarmists" are pretty conservative.

"it's even possible there may be systems that produce a waterfall effect- and that things will go much more swiftly than we think"
I'd say "probable". Yeah, we gotta keep hoping, but we had better start doing, too. I wish Congress would say, "yeah, what California just did."

Arctic Ice Melting Much Faster Than Predicted

Richard A. Lovett
for National Geographic News

May 1, 2007
Arctic Ocean sea ice is melting faster than even the most advanced climate change models predict, a new study concludes.

news.nationalgeographic.com
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