[SustainableTompkins] Carbon’s New Math By Bill McKibben

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Carbon’s New Math. By Bill McKibben

http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/2007-10/carbon-crisis/carbon-crisis.html


The National Geographic Magazine, October, 2007 issue. "It's impossible to precisely predict the consequences of any further increase in CO2 in the atmosphere. But the warming we've seen so far has started almost everything frozen on Earth to melting; it has changed seasons and rainfall patterns; it's set the sea to rising. No matter what we do now, that warming will increase some -- there's a lag time before the heat fully plays out in the atmosphere. That is, we can't stop global warming. Our task is less inspiring: to contain the damage, to keep things from getting [further] out of control... The past couple of years have seen a series of reports indicating that 450 parts per million CO2 is a threshold we'd be wise to respect.


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