On Dec 31 2009, 5:06 am, "[email protected]"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> http://bigthink.com/jameshansen/the-science-of-global-catastrophe
>
> "In the long run [...] over centuries, we could actually get a runaway
> greenhouse effect, and then that's it for all the species on this
> planet [...]. [R]unaway greenhouse effect means once the planet gets
> warmer and warmer, then the oceans begin to evaporate.[...] [T]he
> oceans will begin to boil, and the planet becomes so hot that the
> ocean ends up in the atmosphere."
>
> Looking through the archives I found this thread:
> http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange/browse_thread/thread/b113...
>
> How come I am posting on this now? Well, I saw a review in the New
> Scientist of this
> book:http://www.amazon.co.uk/Storms-My-Grandchildren-Catastrophe-Humanity/...
>
> http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427381.700-will-you-stand-up-...
>
> "James Hansen, is telling it as he sees it, and the result is the most
> frightening book I have ever read, for three reasons.
>
> First, Hansen has come to believe, based on studies of past climate
> change, that the threat facing us is far worse than he thought even a
> few years ago. The very survival of life on Earth is at stake, he
> says. The sun is 2 per cent brighter than it was just 250 million
> years ago, and if we burn up all the fossil fuel on the planet - all
> the oil, coal, tar sand and tar shale - we will trigger a runaway
> greenhouse effect that will ultimately lead to the oceans boiling
> away, he claims."
"I do need to mention one trick, or approximation, that we employed,
so other scientists do not beat me about the head and shoulders." page
153, refers to factoring out O18 concentrations in snow building the
icecaps. Trick was a harmless term when the text of this book was
edited.
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