The Mother of All Positive Feedback Loops?
dc.contributor.author | Cairns, John Jr. | en |
dc.contributor.department | Biological Sciences | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-01-23T02:36:22Z | en |
dc.date.available | 2014-01-23T02:36:22Z | en |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | en |
dc.description.abstract | The 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.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/24973 | en |
dc.identifier.url | http://www.johncairns.net/Commentaries/feedback.pdf | en |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
dc.publisher | Virginia Tech | en |
dc.rights | In Copyright | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | en |
dc.subject | tipping points | en |
dc.subject | positive feedback loops | en |
dc.subject | scientific uncertainty | en |
dc.subject | climate change | en |
dc.subject | greenhouse gas emission | en |
dc.title | The Mother of All Positive Feedback Loops? | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.type.dcmitype | Text | en |
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