Not exact matches
The IPCC's climate report says that the most
extreme scenarios of future warming are looking
less likely — but this doesn't change the big picture
A collapse in the AMOC could also mean there would be
less heat reaching western Europe that could cause the region to plunge into severe winters, the kind of
scenario similar to that depicted, albeit in
extreme fashion, in the movie The Day After Tomorrow.
Many of you are in a
less extreme version of this
scenario, with tired adrenals that have trouble responding appropriately to stress.
Start with
extreme scenarios and gradually move to
less extreme.
If Dr. Hansen never imagined
Scenario A as being a real possibility for the next 20 years, I guess indicated by his description «
Scenario A, since it is exponential, must eventually be on the high side of reality in view of finite resource constraints and environmental concerns, even though the growth of emissions in
Scenario A (~ 1.5 % yr - 1) is
less than the rate typical of the past century (~ 4 % yr - 1)» then his subsequent comment (PNAS, 2001) «Second, the IPCC includes CO2 growth rates that we contend are unrealistically large» seems to indicate that Dr. Hansen doesn't support some of the more
extreme SRES
scenarios.
A collapse in the AMOC could also mean there would be
less heat reaching western Europe that could cause the region to plunge into severe winters, the kind of
scenario similar to that depicted, albeit in
extreme fashion, in the movie The Day After Tomorrow.
While that 55 inches may sound exaggerated, it's
less than half of what scientists project could happen in an
extreme sea level rise
scenario.