> Gavin Schmidt at
> RChttp://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/06/geo-engineering...
> "Think of the climate as a small boat on a rather choppy ocean.
What in terms of world climate is equivalent to the boat being turned
over? It sounds pretty apocalyptic.
With the example given by Gavin we know exactly what catastrophe will
happen, if somebody starts jumping up and down, and we also know that
it is hard to exactly counteract by somebody else jumping up and down,
I don't see this for the climate system. What catastrophe is
supposedly made more likely by two equivalent and opposite forcings,
because they don't exactly off-set?
It is entirely possible that such an unknown effect from the two
opposite forcings would cause / contribute to apocalypse, but
likewise, it might prevent / attenuate it.
That depends entirely on what constitutes "apocalypse".
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