Gambling With Climate Change
In an attempt to better convey the uncertainty in climate change prediction, and thus the implied risk that the world faces, in 2001 the MIT Joint Program developed The Greenhouse Gamble
At Last, EPA Rules Greenhouse Gases Dangerous
Finally, after two years and much hand-wringing, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson issued her proposed finding that carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride may endanger public health or welfare.
A New Global Warming Prediction: two articles on more extreme global climate change to come
Speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Chicago, Professor Chris Field said greenhouse gases increased far more rapidly than expected between 2000 and 2007; “We are basically looking now at a future climate that is beyond anything that we’ve considered seriously in climate policy.”
Prof Field said his 2007 report, which predicted temperature rises between 1.98F (1.1C) and 11.52F (6.4C) over the next century, seriously underestimated the scale of the problem.
