<div dir="ltr"><div>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 <a href="mailto:pagesincolor@yahoo.com">pagesincolor@yahoo.com</a> e-mail address than was sent to my <a href="mailto:peacemovies@gmail.com">peacemovies@gmail.com</a>. 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 <a href="mailto:pagesincolor@yahoo.com">pagesincolor@yahoo.com</a>. So here it is again for any of you who may have missed it: <br>
<br>A new report by the American Association for the Advancement of
Science (AAAS) warns that, "Climate change may trigger 'abrupt'
world-wide consequences" (<a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/3/18/report-climate-changemaytriggerabruptworldwideconsequences.html" target="_blank">http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/3/18/report-climate-changemaytriggerabruptworldwideconsequences.html</a>). <br>
<br></div>John Thielking<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Leedobell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:leedobell@aol.com" target="_blank">leedobell@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><font color="black" face="arial">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.
<div>Caroline<br>
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From: Wes Rolley <<a href="mailto:wrolley@charter.net" target="_blank">wrolley@charter.net</a>><br>
To: Post South SF Bay discuss <<a href="mailto:sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org" target="_blank">sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org</a>><br>
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<div>On 3/19/2014 3:48 AM, Spencer Graves
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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.
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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".
<blockquote type="cite">Where there is a range of uncertainty, the
high-side projections represent tail risk, a common<br>
concept in the world of finance.</blockquote>
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. <br>
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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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<div>-- <br>
"Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you
don't, then you are wasting your time on this Earth"
- <i>Roberto Clemente</i></div>
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