“The erroneous belief that stabilizing emissions would quickly stabilize the climate supports wait-and-see policies but violates basic laws of physics.”
—Dr. John Sterman, risk analyst at the Sloan School of Business, M.I.T.
Notable quotable
You can’t violate the laws of physics 1
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Posted 5:55 PM on 28 Jan 2009
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sindark Posted 1:00 am
29 Jan 2009
As this speech demonstrates, even some very senior officials do not appreciate that stabilizing climate actually requires:
http://www.ec.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=6F2DE1CA-1& ...
More discussion of this is here:
http://www.sindark.com/2009/01/22/what-it-means-to-stabil ...
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