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Article: Dead heat: the science is in on global climate change, and the picture isn't pretty.
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- Earth Island Journal
- Article date:
- June 22, 2003
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Severe climate change--and with it chains of storms, floods, heat waves, droughts, and even cold snaps--is now virtually inevitable, and will bring widespread ecological destruction, extinction, and human suffering. Continued dithering will lead to climatic instability on a truly terrifying scale. We're entirely dependent on science to understand the climate problem and the demands it makes upon our responses. Some strategies will work and others won't, and we need a good grasp of both the science and the politics to tell the difference.
So bear with us, if you will, as we discuss concentration caps, radiative forcing, climate sensitivity, and increased climatic ...