The Mother of All Positive Feedback Loops?

dc.contributor.authorCairns, John Jr.en
dc.contributor.departmentBiological Sciencesen
dc.date.accessioned2014-01-23T02:36:22Zen
dc.date.available2014-01-23T02:36:22Zen
dc.date.issued2008en
dc.description.abstractThe Kyoto Protocol aims to reduce emissions in industrialized countries to five percent below 1990 levels by 2012, however no evidence indicates that this goal will be reached. As a consequence, we will again exceed the Earth s assimilative capacity for greenhouse gases and humankind will push the climate closer to major, irreversible tipping points. Currently, Earth s ability to assimilate greenhouse gases is declining while greenhouse gas emissions are increasing. Climate change is becoming out of humankind s control. Although science may be full of uncertainty, if continuing _business as usual is likely to have catastrophic effects on the biosphere, precautionary measures are justified, even if scientific uncertainty still exists in these areas.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/24973en
dc.identifier.urlhttp://www.johncairns.net/Commentaries/feedback.pdfen
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjecttipping pointsen
dc.subjectpositive feedback loopsen
dc.subjectscientific uncertaintyen
dc.subjectclimate changeen
dc.subjectgreenhouse gas emissionen
dc.titleThe Mother of All Positive Feedback Loops?en
dc.typeArticleen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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