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

[John Thielking]

I can take the time to read the report. Something is still very odd with my
e-mails going to and coming from the chat e-mail list. I have a different
version of this e-mail sent to my pagesincolor at yahoo.com e-mail address
than was sent to my peacemovies at gmail.com.  I guess gmail compresses the
entire thread of all of the e-mails on this subject into just one e-mail
like segment.  In any event, the link to the article is not included in the
latest version of the e-mail sent to me at pagesincolor at yahoo.com. So here
it is again for any of you who may have missed it:

A new report by the American Association for the Advancement of Science
(AAAS) warns that, "Climate change may trigger 'abrupt' world-wide
consequences" (
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/3/18/report-climate-changemaytriggerabruptworldwideconsequences.html).


John Thielking


On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Leedobell <leedobell at aol.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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:
>
> <snip>
>
> 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.
> --
> "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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