Comments on: AAAS: Climate change is coming much harder, much faster than predicted http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/15/aaas-climate-change-is-coming-much-harder-much-faster-than-predicted/ The Latest on Climate Science, Solutions, and Politics Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:16:08 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: storgesqueeme http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/15/aaas-climate-change-is-coming-much-harder-much-faster-than-predicted/#comment-37499 storgesqueeme Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:40:44 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/15/aaas-climate-change-is-coming-much-harder-much-faster-than-predicted/#comment-37499 http://iweoxgh.100webspace.net/ri.html is becoming a nurse hard http://iweoxgh.100webspace.net/ri.html is becoming a nurse hard

]]> By: energyguru http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/15/aaas-climate-change-is-coming-much-harder-much-faster-than-predicted/#comment-30496 energyguru Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:22:27 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/15/aaas-climate-change-is-coming-much-harder-much-faster-than-predicted/#comment-30496 If we do not start thinking with new and breakthrough ideas our planet is doomed . I recently saw 2 new ideas that I think offered some hope! I read a great article on Digg about harnessing the power of stars here on earth. Plus I have also been flowwing cold fusion as an energy source. I discovered a company called Energetics Technologies. They have a process called SuperWaveFusion, which could be a possible breakthrough in cold fusion. I am trying to learn more about this process and would like to hear from others about what they think. If we do not start thinking with new and breakthrough ideas our planet is doomed . I recently saw 2 new ideas that I think offered some hope!
I read a great article on Digg about harnessing the power of stars here on earth. Plus I have also been flowwing cold fusion as an energy source. I
discovered a company called Energetics Technologies. They have a process called SuperWaveFusion, which could be a possible breakthrough in cold fusion. I am trying to learn more about this process and would like to hear from others about what they think.

]]> By: Harold Pierce Jr http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/15/aaas-climate-change-is-coming-much-harder-much-faster-than-predicted/#comment-29998 Harold Pierce Jr Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:05:23 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/15/aaas-climate-change-is-coming-much-harder-much-faster-than-predicted/#comment-29998 Hey there, Rantin' Joe! Hope you keep all my posts in a special file: Prophet Pierce [<em>JR: I keep most of your posts in one of two special files: Spam and "missed his meds again."</em>] Hey there, Rantin’ Joe!

Hope you keep all my posts in a special file: Prophet Pierce

[JR: I keep most of your posts in one of two special files: Spam and "missed his meds again."]

]]> By: Phillip Huggan http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/15/aaas-climate-change-is-coming-much-harder-much-faster-than-predicted/#comment-29977 Phillip Huggan Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:44:09 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/15/aaas-climate-change-is-coming-much-harder-much-faster-than-predicted/#comment-29977 If rainforests dry out en masse and if it becomes obvious threat they will burn, I suggest aggressive forestry management practises. View the Amazon as a checkerboard of forested squares. If you separate the squares via logging firebreak "checkerboard" lines tens of kms wide, throughout all dried out forests, a single fire would be contained. Such a practise would destroy ecosystem and biomes of the largest incubator of new species on Earth, but would sequester carbon. A much more ambitious scheme would see no logging, but massive river diversions and irrigation designed to keep a firebreak of intact forest "wet" enough to halt a forest fire. Here the logged out areas from the cheap plan are instead rainforests that has been expensively irrigated while the forest "squares" dry out. If rainforests dry out en masse and if it becomes obvious threat they will burn, I suggest aggressive forestry management practises.

View the Amazon as a checkerboard of forested squares. If you separate the squares via logging firebreak “checkerboard” lines tens of kms wide, throughout all dried out forests, a single fire would be contained. Such a practise would destroy ecosystem and biomes of the largest incubator of new species on Earth, but would sequester carbon.
A much more ambitious scheme would see no logging, but massive river diversions and irrigation designed to keep a firebreak of intact forest “wet” enough to halt a forest fire. Here the logged out areas from the cheap plan are instead rainforests that has been expensively irrigated while the forest “squares” dry out.

]]> By: Linda S http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/15/aaas-climate-change-is-coming-much-harder-much-faster-than-predicted/#comment-29945 Linda S Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:34:02 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/15/aaas-climate-change-is-coming-much-harder-much-faster-than-predicted/#comment-29945 I agree with Gail. I believe Obama is serious when it comes to reducing the threat of climate change while ridding America of its dangerous reliance on foreign oil. But he cannot do it alone. He needs congress and he needs grass roots movements. The power is with the people but the people are ill-informed at best and mis-informed at worst. We need a strong media sending a strong message and we don't have it. I agree with Gail. I believe Obama is serious when it comes to reducing the threat of climate change while ridding America of its dangerous reliance on foreign oil. But he cannot do it alone. He needs congress and he needs grass roots movements. The power is with the people but the people are ill-informed at best and mis-informed at worst. We need a strong media sending a strong message and we don’t have it.

]]> By: SallyVCrockett http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/15/aaas-climate-change-is-coming-much-harder-much-faster-than-predicted/#comment-29929 SallyVCrockett Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:46:10 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/15/aaas-climate-change-is-coming-much-harder-much-faster-than-predicted/#comment-29929 I agree with the others who feel that the new administration is sincere in its commitment to effective climate change legislation. I hope that includes a full and open discussion of a revenue-neutral carbon tax. We need to raise the cost of carbon based fuels while protecting consumers and incentivizing the creating of new, climate-friendly technologies. A carbon tax does all of that while avoiding the evasion and market manipulation that plague a cap and trade system. I agree with the others who feel that the new administration is sincere in its commitment to effective climate change legislation. I hope that includes a full and open discussion of a revenue-neutral carbon tax. We need to raise the cost of carbon based fuels while protecting consumers and incentivizing the creating of new, climate-friendly technologies. A carbon tax does all of that while avoiding the evasion and market manipulation that plague a cap and trade system.

]]> By: Davian http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/15/aaas-climate-change-is-coming-much-harder-much-faster-than-predicted/#comment-29925 Davian Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:44:56 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/15/aaas-climate-change-is-coming-much-harder-much-faster-than-predicted/#comment-29925 "Preventing deforestation in the tropics is more important than in northern latitudes, the panel agreed, since lush tropical forests sequester more carbon than sparser northern forests. And deforestation in northern areas has benefits, since larger areas end up covered in exposed, heat-reflecting snow." Not according to the latest estimates of sequestered carbon (Leighty et al.2006) Forests have a wide range of capacity for carbon sequestration. The many centuries-old temperate rainforests of Southeast Alaska, lack the catastrophic fire events typical of other forests. The Tongass contains among the highest amounts of sequestered carbon of all the world's forests. The Tongass National Forest, alone, represents 8% of the total carbon in all the forests of the conterminous United States (Leighty, Hamburg, Caouette 2006). “Preventing deforestation in the tropics is more important than in northern latitudes, the panel agreed, since lush tropical forests sequester more carbon than sparser northern forests. And deforestation in northern areas has benefits, since larger areas end up covered in exposed, heat-reflecting snow.”

Not according to the latest estimates of sequestered carbon (Leighty et al.2006)
Forests have a wide range of capacity for carbon sequestration. The many centuries-old temperate rainforests of Southeast Alaska, lack the catastrophic fire events typical of other forests. The Tongass contains among the highest amounts of sequestered carbon of all the world’s forests. The Tongass National Forest, alone, represents 8% of the total carbon in all the forests of the conterminous United States (Leighty, Hamburg, Caouette 2006).

]]> By: Richard Levangie http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/15/aaas-climate-change-is-coming-much-harder-much-faster-than-predicted/#comment-29893 Richard Levangie Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:32:56 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/15/aaas-climate-change-is-coming-much-harder-much-faster-than-predicted/#comment-29893 @DavidONE You do know that a passel of climate scientists are meeting next month in an emergency session to publish an update to the IPCC 4th Assessment Report that will be presented to negotiators prior to the Copenhagen summit, right? http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/feb/09/scientists-summit-climate-change @DavidONE

You do know that a passel of climate scientists are meeting next month in an emergency session to publish an update to the IPCC 4th Assessment Report that will be presented to negotiators prior to the Copenhagen summit, right?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/ environment/ 2009/ feb/ 09/ scientists-summit-climate-change

]]> By: Pierre Champagne http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/15/aaas-climate-change-is-coming-much-harder-much-faster-than-predicted/#comment-29890 Pierre Champagne Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:26:38 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/15/aaas-climate-change-is-coming-much-harder-much-faster-than-predicted/#comment-29890 Henderson does acknowledge that science all to often remains in academic circles. For that reason, his book (The 21st Century Environmental Revolution, http://www.wavesofthefuture.net/ ) does take his large-scale environmental strategy directly to people and makes it as palpable as possible. The question is, what are we going to do about it! Tags: <a href="http://wavesofthefuture.net/" rel="nofollow">global warming solutions</a> Henderson does acknowledge that science all to often remains in academic circles. For that reason, his book (The 21st Century Environmental Revolution, http://www.wavesofthefuture.net/ ) does take his large-scale environmental strategy directly to people and makes it as palpable as possible.

The question is, what are we going to do about it!

Tags: global warming solutions

]]> By: paulm http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/15/aaas-climate-change-is-coming-much-harder-much-faster-than-predicted/#comment-29887 paulm Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:43:21 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/15/aaas-climate-change-is-coming-much-harder-much-faster-than-predicted/#comment-29887 ...require the removal of air heads in the journalistic community! …require the removal of air heads in the journalistic community!

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