Comments on: Energy Secretary Chu Describes Climate Doomsday Scenario http://earthfirst.com/energy-secretary-chu-describes-climate-doomsday-scenario/ A Sharp Eye -- With a Green Edge Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:57:19 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: MotherNatureDaily http://earthfirst.com/energy-secretary-chu-describes-climate-doomsday-scenario/comment-page-1/#comment-7128 MotherNatureDaily Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:24:27 +0000 http://earthfirst.com/?p=4033#comment-7128 "Climate doomsday" -- funny how that would have sounded alarmist ten years ago. With growing scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change and slow changes in policy, a 4-6 degree C change in climate seems more and more a likely outcome. The Huffington Post does a good job here of intimating the scale of change we can expect if the climate shifts 5 degrees from where we are now by using the last Ice Age as a counterpoint. Ice sheets halfway down the American continent. Low-lying island nations like the Maldives disappearing is just the,... *ahem*... tip of the iceberg (melting away, that is). “Climate doomsday” — funny how that would have sounded alarmist ten years ago. With growing scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change and slow changes in policy, a 4-6 degree C change in climate seems more and more a likely outcome.

The Huffington Post does a good job here of intimating the scale of change we can expect if the climate shifts 5 degrees from where we are now by using the last Ice Age as a counterpoint. Ice sheets halfway down the American continent.

Low-lying island nations like the Maldives disappearing is just the,… *ahem*… tip of the iceberg (melting away, that is).

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