tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6567739253849176294.post5375026413054107948..comments2023-10-17T19:59:49.144+10:00Comments on Healthy Curiousity: Climate Change, Ecological Novelty, This is not the Age of AquariusUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6567739253849176294.post-74642910054414700612010-07-01T05:18:31.887+10:002010-07-01T05:18:31.887+10:00Arctic Climate May Be More Sensitive to Warming Th...Arctic Climate May Be More Sensitive to Warming Than Thought, Says New Study<br /><br />ScienceDaily (June 30, 2010) — A new study shows the Arctic climate system may be more sensitive to greenhouse warming than previously thought, and that current levels of Earth's atmospheric carbon dioxide may be high enough to bring about significant, irreversible shifts in Arctic ecosystems.<br /><br />Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17401232760394588049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6567739253849176294.post-40354042973838973592010-07-01T05:10:35.200+10:002010-07-01T05:10:35.200+10:00"Greening the deserts" is one example of..."Greening the deserts" is one example of where I have a problem with the conservationists because they seem to think that the desert is vital and that the web of life will be irretrievably altered if we change the desert. Of course it will be altered, that's the point. That attitude is completely different from a more practical attitude towards conservation: preserving an ecology Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17401232760394588049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6567739253849176294.post-10933146877619795672010-06-30T18:58:55.386+10:002010-06-30T18:58:55.386+10:00Happens all the time. This stuff is harmless, we&#...Happens all the time. This stuff is harmless, we'll dump it here. If it is not so harmless, we'll dump it somewhere deeper. Gotta change that attitude. Any large change in the "chemical soup" is potentially disruptive. Life is that deeply adapted to its environment, it is the molecular activity, the contexts of interactions, not just a prescribed set of molecular reactions thatJohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17401232760394588049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6567739253849176294.post-76435331971800202302010-06-30T18:49:33.845+10:002010-06-30T18:49:33.845+10:00Steve,
In regard to CO2 I think we should be buil...Steve,<br /><br />In regard to CO2 I think we should be building nuke plants and lots of them. My tipping point re AGW came with the ocean studies, no models required. Increasing ocean acidification and nitrogen loading is already inducing measurable ecological and physiological changes. So people can argue about climate models all they like, but in addition to other findings, like that with Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17401232760394588049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6567739253849176294.post-89412851696233464262010-06-30T10:27:54.268+10:002010-06-30T10:27:54.268+10:00Interesting post John,
I would say something abou...Interesting post John,<br /><br />I would say something about this.<br /><br />"Scientists working in the relevant fields are more likely to become alarmed because on an almost daily basis they are confronting data which indicates to them that there are now changes occurring in ecology that are not so much as to be seen in the perspective of past ecologies "<br /><br />I do wonder how Steve Edneynoreply@blogger.com