Taxes on energy are at best a partial approach to the task of reducing emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols — and consequently the risk of
triggering abrupt climate change.
A variety of other evidence for
very abrupt climate changes was accumulating, and some began to entertain the notion of such change on a global scale.
But upward growth curves are especially relevant when you have something
like abrupt climate change that can pump you up the curve.
These possibilities (
e.g. abrupt climate change) are associated with natural climate variability, and possibly its interaction with AGW.
This goes to the question of
abrupt climate change in the past, and what role do both positive and negative feedbacks play.
«Researchers first became intrigued
by abrupt climate change when they discovered striking evidence of large, abrupt, and widespread changes preserved in paleoclimatic archives... The chapter concludes with examples of modern climate change and techniques for observing it.
«Timing of
Abrupt Climate Change at the End of the Younger Dryas Interval from Thermally Fractionated Gases in Polar Ice.»
Climate data The Modern Temperature Trend Past Climate Cycles and Ice Ages Temperatures from Fossil Shells Rapid Climate Change
Abrupt climate change Uses of Radiocarbon Dating Greenland Ice Drilling (J. Genuth) Influences on climate The Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Effect Roger Revelle's Discovery Other Greenhouse Gases Aerosols: Volcanoes, Dust, Clouds Biosphere: How Life Alters Climate Changing Sun, Changing Climate?
via:: The Guardian Climate Change
Really Abrupt Climate Change Really Happened Counting on Climate Change Tipping Point to Appear Within 100 Months
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