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[ClimateScienceWatch] New abrupt climate change report says greater sea level rise and ...: They have provided an assessment of the current state of scientific understanding of key issues bearing on the potential for abrupt climate change. But, despite the CCSP’s description of these synthesis reports as “decision support resources,” they are not really designed to meet the needs of decisionmakers at the national level and in states and local communities for planning and technical assistance in coming up with real-world resilience-building responses to the likely acceleration of harmful climate change impacts discussed in the report.

[Geology News] Abrupt Climate Change | Geology.com: “The United States faces the potential for abrupt climate change in the 21st century that could pose clear risks to society in terms of our ability to adapt. ”˜Abrupt’ changes can occur over decades or less, persist for decades more, and cause substantial disruptions to human and natural systems.” Quoted from the USGS news release.

[Truthout - All Articles] t r u t h o u t | Faster Climate Change Feared: The climate change debate usually leaves out the ultimate causes of most earth destruction, which is capitalism enshrining human consumption and population growth as gods. Read the book The Enemy of Nature and see the absolute proof that unless we stop the borrow/spend/bulldozer mentality that charecterizes Liberals and Conservatives alike, that we will soon destroy the biosphere will also creating an enslaved world of humans who struggle for oxygen, water, food and freedom while being held down by the fascist police state elites and their political/government/corporate enablers who increasingly control our lives.

[Michael Moore - This Just In] MichaelMoore.com : Agencies' report warns of faster climate change: However, the assessment also suggests that some other feared effects of global warming are not likely to occur by the end of the century, such as an abrupt release of methane from the seabed and permafrost or a shutdown of the Atlantic Ocean circulation system that brings warm water north and colder water south. But the report projects an amount of potential sea level rise during that period that may be greater than what other researchers have anticipated, as well as a shift to a more arid climate pattern in the Southwest by midcentury.

[Untitled] Abrupt Climate Shifts May Come Sooner, Not Later: In the interior United States, a widespread drought that began in the Southwest about 6 years ago could be the leading edge of a new climate regime for a wider region. Cook, who heads Lamont's Tree Ring Lab, says that periodic droughts over the past 1,000 years have been driven by natural cycles in air circulation, and that these cycles appear to be made more intense and persistent by warming.

[Untitled] Bay & Environment: Drought, melting arctic ice: Abrupt climate ...: If the rate should exceed 0.4 C per decade, all ecosystems will be quickly destroyed, opportunistic species will dominate, and the breakdown of biological material will lead to even greater emissions of CO2. This will in turn increase the rate of warming' --Leemans and Eickhout (2004), 'Another reason for concern: regional and global impacts on ecosystems for different levels of climate change,' Global Environmental Change 14, 219-228

[Untitled] Abrupt climate shifts may move faster than thought - Care2 News ...: Climate can and does change rapidly and often the changes are brief and last only a decade or so before they head in the other direction. In the 1940’s, 50’s, 60’s and into the late 70’s the world was cooling and the temperatures in the late 70’s were some of the lowest recorded since the little ice age, but beginning in the 80’s we began witnessing an increase in temperatures that rivaled those of the 1930’s, temperatures that hadn’t been seen since the medieval warm period.

[Untitled] Abrupt Climate Change: Will It Happen This Century? | Kansas City ...: “This report was truly a collaborative effort between world renowned scientists who provided objective, unbiased information that is necessary to develop effective adaptation and mitigation strategies that protect our livelihood,” said USGS Director Mark Myers. “It summarizes the scientific community’s growing understanding regarding the potential for abrupt climate changes and identifies areas for additional research to further improve climate models.”

[Untitled] Faster Climate Change Feared « Chrisy58’s Weblog: is one of the challenges facing the federal government, along with better coordination among agencies on the issue of climate change. When it comes to abrupt climate shifts, he said, “We need to be prepared to deal with it in terms of policymaking, keeping in mind it’s a low-probability, high-risk scenario.

[Untitled] Docuticker » Blog Archive » Abrupt Climate Change: Will It Happen ...: The United States faces the potential for abrupt climate change in the 21st century that could pose clear risks to society in terms of our ability to adapt.

[Untitled] threedonia.com » Blog Archive » Al Gore to Rich: It contends that seas could rise rapidly if melting of polar ice continues to outrun recent projections, and that an ongoing drought in the U.S. west could be the start of permanent drying for the region. Commissioned by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program, the report was authored by experts from the U.S. Geological Survey, Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and other leading institutions.

[Untitled] Scientists Sound Alarm on Arctic Melting, "Abrupt" Climate Change ...: ocean circulation patterns that help give Europe a much warmer climate than it would otherwise have may weaken by about 25-30 percent during this century due to greenhouse gas increases, but will probably not collapse altogether - although that possibility cannot be entirely excluded.

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