posted to Climate Concern Group 1/28/09, about the urgency.
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You have to laugh about the long range predictions for the environment, though. That ocean levels would continue to rise for 1000+ years even if CO2 increases are halted immediately, with the curve having a different slope depending on how soon, has been in all the literature, even from the economists, for a decade or more. see: http://www.synapse9.com/issues/ClimateLags.pdf
The really comedic part of this OECD graph projecting the future if we act on climate aggressively now is that it also shows the projection of economic growth, for the same for 1300 years, off the chart from very near the start! In 1300 years, doubling every 20 years, following what is considered to be the “growth constant”, the economies would come to have wealth equal to about 700 present global economies, *per square foot*, for every square foot of the land mass of the earth. Hey, check my figures!
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NY NY www.synapse9.com