How will global warming become out of control?
Many scientists to say that if emissions aren’t reduced by X amount in Y years, global warming will become out of our control.
Why? Is it because of the permafrost in Russia will melt, or because there will be too much carbon in the atmosphere to make a difference?
Read MoreHow would you personally like to see the issue of climate change being addressed?
If you were to be tasked with implementing a package of measures designed to address the issue of climate change, what procedures would you put in place?
Perhaps you would consider strategies designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, or maybe you consider that such measures are unnecessary or would be ineffective.
Would you like to see strategies adopted that would attempt to intervene with the mechanisms leading to climate change, such as the physical extraction of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere or the implementation of schemes designed to reduce the amount of heat being received from the Sun.
Read MoreHow confident are you in the accuracy of climate models?
Do you think they’re generally accurate? Worthless? On what do you base this conclusion?
Here is one scientist’s take:
Many of the comments to previous blogs have stated that models are “just” a set of assumptions, and that the processes in the Earth’s climate are so complex that they defy our attempts to model them with any rigor. There are assumptions that are made when models are built, but those assumptions are not simply pulled out of a bag of magic tricks. In fact, arbitrary, unjustified assumptions are generally repelled from the modeling community because, first and foremost, the models need to describe some set of observations and the evolution of those observations, i.e. prediction. Most components of models are, just like my original modeling efforts, a representation of mathematical equations that rigorously describe the motion of the atmosphere. The idea that I and my colleagues would work from some potpourri of unjustified assumptions is, in fact, a bit offensive.
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/RickyRood/comment.html?entrynum=57&tstamp=200801
Jello, welcome to our side.
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Read MoreWhat are some effects global warming makes on the atmosphere?
I’m writing a paper on the negative effects of global warming on the atmosphere, humans, animals, and the environment (sea, land, trees, air, etc.), and I need to know what effects global warming makes on the atmosphere.
Lmao, yeah. Antartica’s ice is INCREASING.
I’m writing a paper on the negative effects of global warming on the atmosphere, humans, animals, and the environment (sea, land, trees, air, etc.), and I need to know what effects global warming makes on the atmosphere.
Read MoreAccording to one argument, if the atmosphere warmed, the Gulf Stream would be altered and global climate wo?
According to one argument, if the atmosphere warmed, the Gulf Stream would be altered and global climate would cool. Which of the following mechanisms is used to support this argument? The surface of the ocean would become warmer and
a. denser; it would sink, increasing the vertical current, causing the Gulf Stream to speed up.
b. more buoyant; it would stop sinking and shut off the vertical current, causing the Gulf Stream to speed up.
c. more buoyant; it would stop sinking and shut off the vertical current, deflecting the Gulf Stream.
d. denser; it would sink, increasing the vertical current, deflecting the Gulf Stream.