What Environmental Reporting Leaves Out

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22. You consistently have posts that are optimistic, ...

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in the face of other's stated possibilities resulting from our changing climate. There is nothing wrong with this, however, if others contest your opinions it is not necessarily and insult as much as a questioning of the basis of your optimism.

That said, you responded to my initial post with a rebuttal of a simple statement about how the chaos theory parallels the first stages of the changing climate we are witnessing today and that models predicting the future are nearly useless with no stable historical records or trends as a basis or foundation of those models. Now read the first paragraph of your post above. If you feel all the possibilities you have listed to be a probable outcome of our future from only an .8*C rise in the current global temperature, and you acknowledge there is more CO2 in the atmosphere waiting to have an effect, what better illustrates the probability of a climate entering into a state of chaos with a deepening trend yet to be realized?

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