Abrupt Cimate Change? Yes.

[Binkie The Clown]

http://www.ecoshock.info/2015/01/abrupt-climate-change-yes.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EcoshockNews+%28Ecoshock+News%29

According to one climate scientist, "We are at the extreme weather stage and rapidly heading into the red zone." That is when "all hell breaks loose". Who else says so? Your insurance company. Both Lloyd's of London and Zurich Insurance in Switzerland just warned of extreme weather events coming this year of 2015.

The climate scientist is Paul Beckwith from the University of Ottawa. He has two Masters Degrees, and is working on his PHD in climate science. Paul lives out the late Steven Schneider's call for scientists that communicate. I follow Paul's Tweets, Facebook page, and You tube videos to see what's new and what's hot.

Paul is this week's feature guest on Radio Ecoshock.

Podcast at the link.

[daleanime]

1. kick, kick, kick.....

[rurallib]

2. nother kick

[SheilaT]

3. Climate change can happen much faster than people realize.

I've read a number of books on this topic, and more recent research indicates that the planet can descend into an ice age VERY quickly, in well under a century, rather than the thousands of years previously assumed.

[Binkie The Clown]

5. The OOPS moment...

Dynamical systems can go on repeating a very similar cycle (think winter-spring-summer-fall) over and over, and then, with a slight push, suddenly flip into a different cycle.



Slowly push a glass of water toward the edge of the table. If you push it slowly enough will it fall slowly to the ground? Right! It will very suddenly change state from sliding slowly along the table to falling and smashing on the floor. Our climate works that way. A small push can result in a huge change of state.

[mountain grammy]

4. kick again