Comments on: The tipping points of Global Warming – are we there? http://www.smittysholdings.com/wordpress/2007/the-tipping-points-of-global-warming-are-we-there/ Website Marketing, Search Engine Optimization and Important Issues Sat, 05 Nov 2011 18:46:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: admin http://www.smittysholdings.com/wordpress/2007/the-tipping-points-of-global-warming-are-we-there/comment-page-1/#comment-16 admin Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:54:27 +0000 http://www.smittysholdings.com/wordpress/archives/76#comment-16 Final details were completed by hundreds of scientists in Brussels early this morning and approved by officials from more than 100 countries. The report, focusing on measured and projected effects of warming and possible responses. The Report is due out today http://www.ipcc.ch/ Final details were completed by hundreds of scientists in Brussels early this morning and approved by officials from more than 100 countries. The report, focusing on measured and projected effects of warming and possible responses.

The Report is due out today

http://www.ipcc.ch/

]]> By: admin http://www.smittysholdings.com/wordpress/2007/the-tipping-points-of-global-warming-are-we-there/comment-page-1/#comment-15 admin Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:47:04 +0000 http://www.smittysholdings.com/wordpress/archives/76#comment-15 Key Thresholds from the article... Worldwide, thresholds were outlined last year in "Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change," a summary of tipping points for which British Prime Minister Tony Blair wrote the foreword. They include: •At a 3.6-degree rise, all Indian Ocean coral reefs go extinct, and 97% of the rest around the globe are "bleached" or severely damaged. All Arctic ice disappears. •At a 5.4-degree increase, half of all nature reserves become unable to conserve native species. The Amazon rainforest disappears. •At 7.2 degrees or higher, coastal flooding is seven times worse than in 1990. Malaria threatens 330 million more people a year, and hunger jeopardizes 600 million. Australia no longer can grow food. All of this leaves aside the most extreme risks that Schneider calls the "dark edge of the bell curve": melting of the vast Antarctic ice sheets; shutdown of Atlantic Ocean circulation, which brings warm weather to the United Kingdom; and the release of more greenhouse gases frozen in the Arctic tundra. Key Thresholds from the article…

Worldwide, thresholds were outlined last year in “Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change,” a summary of tipping points for which British Prime Minister Tony Blair wrote the foreword. They include:

•At a 3.6-degree rise, all Indian Ocean coral reefs go extinct, and 97% of the rest around the globe are “bleached” or severely damaged. All Arctic ice disappears.

•At a 5.4-degree increase, half of all nature reserves become unable to conserve native species. The Amazon rainforest disappears.

•At 7.2 degrees or higher, coastal flooding is seven times worse than in 1990. Malaria threatens 330 million more people a year, and hunger jeopardizes 600 million. Australia no longer can grow food.

All of this leaves aside the most extreme risks that Schneider calls the “dark edge of the bell curve”: melting of the vast Antarctic ice sheets; shutdown of Atlantic Ocean circulation, which brings warm weather to the United Kingdom; and the release of more greenhouse gases frozen in the Arctic tundra.

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