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Unexpected? Climate scientists been harping on that risk for the last 25 years. The chance that we are going to have a broadly discussed climate change accele
by ghshephard 10y ago
Unexpected? Climate scientists been harping on that risk for the last 25 years. The chance that we are going to have a broadly discussed climate change acceleration is certainly growing - but I doubt even climate change skeptics would suggest that it was unexpected.
- Broken_Hippo 10y agoMore like 100+ years. We've known about this for a really long time. http://www.snopes.com/1912-article-global-warming/ http://www.snopes.com/1912-article-global-warming/
- lamontcg 10y agoUp until the 1950s though it was thought that water vapor saturation of the IR absorption lines would nullify any effect of increasing CO2 concentrations. It wasn't until the USAF started doing careful analysis of the upper atmosphere that it was discovered that the upper atmosphere is dry enough that increasing concentrations of CO2 there will act like throwing a warm blanket around the planet and that the sea-level saturation of H2O wouldn't matter.
- brbrodude 10y agoUnexpected by most. The 'problem' is known, the consequences, I'm pretty sure, are not something most people have taken in consideration, plus, it's unimaginable how much can go wrong. Shit, now I'm depressed.
- mikro2nd 10y ago25 years? "Limits to Growth" was published in 1974 iirc.