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Yes, you are right. There is nothing wrong with climate change, it has happened before, it will happen again. The problem is the timescale of the change. In the
by josho 12y ago
Yes, you are right. There is nothing wrong with climate change, it has happened before, it will happen again. The problem is the timescale of the change. In the past changes occurred over centuries, we are causing the change in decades. That timescale risks catastrophe.
If you genuinely want to understand then I recommend reading Storms of My Grandchildren by James Hansen, or at least googling a few book reviews to get a sense.
- SapphireSun 12y agohttp://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/tssts-2-1-1.html http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/tssts-2-... It may be worse than that... Those charts show higher levels of several greenhouse gases than has occurred in hundreds of thousands of years, not centuries.