Of course, it also possible there may be still be other serious
climatic changes in store for us, independent of human activity, as Ronald Wright has correctly pointed out, but for our species to have caused, by our hand, the near certainty that drastic changes will occur demonstrates monumetal recklessness and stupidity.
«Climate
change, as well as human - caused deforestation and biomass burning, can lead to ecological and
climatic tipping points that could release massive pools of
stored carbon,» said Scot Martin, the Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences
in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.