Indeed, I argue that the cultural dismantling of the three basic components of normal human infant sleep i.e. sleep position (on the back for breastfeeding which was
changed to prone sleep), feeding method (
from breastfeeding to formula or cows milk, bottle feeding) and infant sleep location (
from next to the mother
within sensory range to nighttime separation, a separate room) fostered and promoted the SIDS epidemic which is was limited to the industrialized, western world.
RealClimate is wonderful, and an excellent source of reliable information.As I've said before, methane is an extremely dangerous component to global warming.Comment # 20 is correct.There is a sharp melting point to frozen methane.A huge increase in the release of methane could happen
within the next 50 years.At what point in the Earth's temperature rise and the rise of co2 would a huge methane melt occur?No one has answered that definitive issue.If I ask you all at what point would huge amounts of extra methane start melting, i.e at what temperature rise of the ocean near the Artic methane ice deposits would the methane melt, or at what point in the rise of co2 concentrations in the atmosphere would the methane melt, I believe that no one could currently tell me the actual answer as to where the sharp melting point exists.Of course, once that tipping point has been reached, and billions of tons of methane outgass
from what had been locked stores of methane, locked away for an eternity, it is exactly the same as the burning of stored fossil fuels which have been stored for an eternity as well.And even though methane does not have as long a life as co2, while it is around in the air it can cause other tipping points, i.e. permafrost melting, to arrive much sooner.I will reiterate what I've said before on this and other sites.Methane is a hugely underreported, underestimated risk.How about RealClimate attempts to model exactly what would happen to other tipping points, such as the melting permafrost, if
indeed a huge increase in the melting of the methal hydrate ice WERE to occur
within the next 50 years.My amateur guess is that the huge, albeit temporary, increase in methane over even three or four decades might push other relevent tipping points to arrive much, much, sooner than they normally would, thereby vastly incresing negative feedback mechanisms.We KNOW that quick, huge,
changes occured in the Earth's climate in the past.See other relevent posts in the past
from Realclimate.Climate often does not
change slowly, but undergoes huge, quick,
changes periodically, due to negative feedbacks accumulating, and tipping the climate to a quick
change.Why should the danger
from huge potential methane releases be vievwed with any less trepidation?
Indeed,
changing legal education — competencies required
from Law Societies, the articling process
changing in Ontario, and the access to justice crisis, as well as internal pressures coming
from students interested in experiential opportunities and faculty - based self - critiques of traditional pedagogies
within legal education have led to may
changes within legal education.