Not exact matches
We are talking about what I call a
climate change
of the
second kind: a change in how heat is moved around the
climate system.
And I
second what Glenn Landers (# 10) wrote: «I'm all in favor
of these
kinds of efforts because they educate the public about the dire need to deal with
climate change, but to get to where we need to be will require a whole lot more.»
As a result, the
climate change prediction problem has components
of both first and
second kind which are deeply intertwined.»
Second, that
climate politics
of this
kind has achieved this level
of prominence therefore can not be blamed solely on
climate activists.
Such losses
of individuals that take species towards critical viability thresholds can be very fast — within three decades or less, as already evidenced by many species now considered at risk
of extinction due to causes other than
climate change by the International Union for the Conservation
of Nature.15 The
second kind of abrupt change is simply the terminal event in the extinction process — the loss
of the last individual
of a species.
As a
second comment, I have the same issue with these
kinds of economic models as I do with
climate models.
For this
second kind of prediction, you always need a scenario for what might happen to the drivers
of climate change.
The best I can say is that forecasting the weather is categorically different than forecasting the
climate, precisely because in the first you can get instant feedback, and in the
second you can not by definition get the same
kind of feedback.