Sensitivity
and the Carbon Budget The Ultimate Challenge of Climate Science
Presented by
David Wasdell (Director of the Apollo-Gaia Project*)
The Presentation was introduced on 4th March at the Climate Challenge 2014 Conference, Convened by Climate Change Solutions, and held in the I-Max Theatre of the Millennium Point complex in Birmingham during International Climate Week. It has subsequently been completely revised and re-written for wider circulation.
The project was conceived in 2005 to focus on the energy interface between the sun and the earth in the light of human modification of the composition of the terrestrial atmosphere. Of particular concern was the impact of the complex system of feedback processes that were being brought into play by the increase in concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide and by the consequent rise in average surface temperature of the planet. We sought definitive answers to two critical questions:
- By how much does the natural planetary climate system amplify the greenhouse effect of the CO2 emissions? In other words, how sensitive is the climate to human disturbance?
- Is there a critical threshold beyond which the world system moves into self-amplification, or runaway behaviour, and if so, then what boundary conditions are involved?
To read David Wasdell's paper GO HERE
This introduction by David Wasdell helped me to understand the mechansims behind changes in the Arctic
We have to conclude from this that we are at the tipping point now of runaway Abrupt climate change global warming because of this very crux of same in imminent inevitability of sudden immense Arctic methane release. We must as a suiciide charge before the Koch Bros vast denial machinery save what essence remains of life on earth in our last full measure of ameliorating self sacrifice.
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