> http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0606291103v1 >
Hansen actually criticises the IPCC explicitly in this paper: "Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (10) assumes negligible contribution to 2100 sea level change from loss of Greenland and Antarctic ice, but that conclusion is implausible." The other thing I found interesting in this paper was a suggestion that El Nino conditions might become permanent. "It has been hypothesized that, during the early Pliocene, when the Earth was 3°C warmer than today, a permanent El Niño condition existed." Jeff Masters http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/ points out that El Ninos are associated with fewer hurricanes in the Atlantic basin. I find this interesting as it indicates that while hurricanes overall might go up, they might actually decrease in the US. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
