[MCN] Truer words seldom spoken : "Climate models agree things will get bad. Capturing just how bad is tricky "

[Lance Olsen]

Climate models agree things will get bad. Capturing just how bad is tricky <https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiYWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnNjaWVuY2VuZXdzLm9yZy9hcnRpY2xlL3doeS1jbGltYXRlLWNoYW5nZS1tb2RlbHMtZGlzYWdyZWUtZWFydGgtd29yc3QtY2FzZS1zY2VuYXJpb3PSAWVodHRwczovL3d3dy5zY2llbmNlbmV3cy5vcmcvYXJ0aWNsZS93aHktY2xpbWF0ZS1jaGFuZ2UtbW9kZWxzLWRpc2FncmVlLWVhcnRoLXdvcnN0LWNhc2Utc2NlbmFyaW9zL2FtcA?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen>
Earth's climatic future is uncertain, but the world needs to prepare for change. Enter climate simulations, which re-create the physical interactions between land, ...
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"No one wanted to pay attention to the implications of a world four degrees warmer… It's too horrendous to think about.  And no one talked about it. 

"Then a few scientists said let's have a conference and actually talk about it. They held this conference in Oxford and I went along. 

"As the conference started, there was a kind of suppressed emotional intensity, except in the coffee breaks. It was then that I would buttonhole a couple of scientists and say: 'Well, you know we're speculating about this. But what do you really think is the situation?' And one of them just looked at me and said: 'We're f--ked.'" — Clive Hamilton 
 
Paul Kennedy. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Thursday September 07, 2017
<<http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/are-we-f-ked-decoding-the-resistance-to-climate-change-1.4277614 <http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/are-we-f-ked-decoding-the-resistance-to-climate-change-1.4277614>>>


   ========++++++.  Food: Heat has consequences +++++=======
 
“Coping with the short-run challenge of food price volatility is daunting. But the longer-term 
challenge of avoiding a perpetual food crisis under conditions of global warming is far more 
serious. “
 
David. S. Battisti  and Rosamond L. Naylor.
Historical Warnings of Future Food Insecurity with Unprecedented Seasonal Heat. 
SCIENCE 9 JANUARY 2009
<<https://science.sciencemag.org/content/323/5911/240 <https://science.sciencemag.org/content/323/5911/240>>>
 

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