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truebrit71

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7. The end result is that we're still screwed...

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Mon May 20, 2013, 11:27 AM

May 2013

...but not right away....right?

I thought that global temperatures always fluctuated, they were never just going to continue to go up in a straight line...

It sounds, to my ears at least, that this is just more re-arranging the deckchairs, because in the end, we're still going to hit the proverbial iceberg....

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Climate slowdown means extreme rates of warming 'not as likely' [View all] xchrom May 2013 OP

Seems to me this is becoming a matter of who reports what and when dipsydoodle May 2013 #1

yeah -- i have no idea. xchrom May 2013 #2

Melt the arctic and there will be a rush of cold water into the ocean... tinrobot May 2013 #3

Hardly "news" FBaggins May 2013 #4

I thought the "missing" atmospheric heat pscot May 2013 #5

Exactly. truebrit71 May 2013 #8

Guardian reporting this story as "Climate change: human disaster looms, claims new research" wtmusic May 2013 #6

The end result is that we're still screwed... truebrit71 May 2013 #7

They are talking about surface vs ocean temps cprise May 2013 #9