[MCN] Positive climate-feedback science circa 1925

[Lance Olsen]

"During the early decades of the 20th century, a very few meteorologists did speculate about possibilities for rapid change. The most striking scenario was offered in 1925 by the respected climate expert C. E. P. Brooks, who suggested that a slight change of conditions might set off a self-sustaining shift between climate states. Suppose, he said, some random decrease of snow cover in northern latitudes exposed dark ground. Then the ground would absorb more sunlight, which would warm the air, which would melt still more snow—a vicious feedback cycle. An abrupt and catastrophic rise of tens of degrees was conceivable, Brooks wrote, “perhaps in the course of a single season.” 2  <https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.1611350#>

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.1611350 <https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.1611350>

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Dec 13, 2018 : Then-15 year old Greta Thunberg at 24th conference of climate delegates:"You are not mature enough to tell it like it is."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM380e0YUV8 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM380e0YUV8>

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"Environmental psychologist Susi Moser (2012) ... calls it ‘the bravest thing’ – getting real, accepting reality without illusions, and accepting that better tomorrows may not come.”
https://www.isthishowyoufeel.com/blog/how-do-people-cope-with-feelings-about-climate-change-so-that-they-stay-engaged-and-take-action <https://www.isthishowyoufeel.com/blog/how-do-people-cope-with-feelings-about-climate-change-so-that-they-stay-engaged-and-take-action>



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