On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 12:31 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > According to Chris, "Climate is not the weather" or the local weather. So > if this suggestion is correct, its local anomalies over the years, driven > onward, by El Nino' or La Nina' ? According to a report released, last > week, by the Royal Climate Group and the US national academy of sciences, a > change in energy sources will not help us. I had to read it twice to > comprehend what the report indicated. >
Are you talking about the report at http://dels.nas.edu/resources/static-assets/exec-office-other/climate-change-full.pdf? If so you have totally misunderstood "what the report indicated", page B8 shows that climate models predict the "Aggressive emissions reduction" scenario would result in much lower global temperature in 2100 than the "'Business as usual' emissions" scenario. They do say on p. 22 that "If emissions of CO2 stopped altogether, it would take many thousands of years for atmospheric CO2 to return to 'pre-industrial' levels due to its very slow transfer to the deep ocean and ultimate burial in ocean sediments", but even if temperatures don't drop for a while, as long as they don't rise to levels much above what we have today, the consequences probably wouldn't be too bad (for a discussion of the likely consequences of each 1 degree rise, check out the book "Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet" by Mark Lynas). Jesse -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
