Tue, 31 Mar 2009
With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists fear Tipping Points in Climate Change, by Fred Pearce
I bought With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists fear Tipping Points in Climate Change
to investigate the concept of tipping points in climate change: how real are they, and
what ones might exist. A lot of points are labelled 'tipping points', such as the melting of the Arctic; but, if we successfully reduced CO2 to pre-industrial levels, would they revert, or would we have passed a point of no return?
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