[GPSCC-chat] AAAS: Climate change may trigger 'abrupt' world-wide consequences

[Leedobell]

I think we need to do something to say "Thank you" to Katherine Hayhoe for having the guts to put her name on the report.
Caroline



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From: Wes Rolley <wrolley at charter.net>
To: Post South SF Bay discuss <sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>
Sent: Wed, Mar 19, 2014 9:43 am
Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] AAAS: Climate change may trigger 'abrupt' world-wide consequences


          
    
On 3/19/2014 3:48 AM, Spencer Graves      wrote:
    
    
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      p.s.  Might someone have time to skim the full AAAS report?  If      yes, I'd like to know if it mentions "chaos theory" or      "catastrophe theory".  I believe it should be cited in relevant      Wikipedia articles.  I don't have time at the moment to do that      research, but I could help someone else with the knowledge to make      appropriate changes to Wikipedia.      
    
    Spencer, the full article is a very good summary statement of what    is known and what is still un-known and has no reference to chaos    theory.  While risk assessment is a major subject in the report, it    is referenced in terms of "tail risk".     
Where there is a range of uncertainty, the      high-side projections represent tail risk, a common
      concept in the world of finance.
    It is probably appropriate to express things in this manner as the    terminology isin  fairly common parlance from the discussion of the    financial meltdown that we have just gone through.  It is the    financial risk of climate change that will probably drive much of    the changes we need as insurance companies, real estate investment    trusts, etc. take action to protect their assets.  Consider what a 7    ft. sea level rise would do to S. Florida real estate.  
    
    As the Daily Climate summarizes this: "The significance of Tuesday's    report lies not in its findings, which cover familiar ground, but in    who is saying it: the world's largest general scientific body, and    one of its most respected."  It should be deeply disconcerting to    deniers that Katherine Hayhoe's name is on the report as she is    political conservative (Republican?)  and an Evangelical Christian.    
    
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      "Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you      don't, then you are wasting your time on this Earth"      - Roberto Clemente
  

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