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Tipping Point: Where May Abrupt Impacts from Climate Change Occur?

2013-12-03 21:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: Climate change has increased concern over possible large and rapid changes in the physical climate system, which includes Earth's atmosphere, land surfaces, and oceans. Some of these changes could occur within a few decades or even years, leaving little time for society and ecosystems to adapt. A new report from the National Research Council extends this idea of abrupt climate change, stating that even steady, gradual change in the physical climate system can have abrupt impacts elsewhere -- in human...

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An Update Risks of Abrupt Jolts from Global Warming

2013-12-03 17:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: In 2002, the National Academy of Sciences published Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises, a valuable report examining whether and how the building human influence on the climate system might lead to disruptive jolts. The most important finding, in a way, was that this was an area sorely in need of intensified research. Most of the monsters behind the door, to use an apt phrase from Stephen W. Pacala of Princeton, were plausible rather than probable. There were signs theyd escaped before...

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Threat 'Abrupt' Climate Impacts Warrants Early Warning System, Panel Finds

2013-12-03 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Geographic: Climate change "tipping points" could be sudden and surprising, experts say. The threat of sudden climate change disaster-from the poles melting to farmlands failing-is real and requires an early warning system, an expert panel suggested on Tuesday. Looking at "tipping points" for global warming disasters, the National Research Council panel report on "abrupt" climate impacts finds noteworthy risks of sharp, sudden sea-level rise, water shortages, and extinctions worldwide in coming years and decades....

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PRESS RELEASE: 70% of Executives in New York Area Forecast Revenue Growth in 2014: Margolin, Winer & Evens Executive Survey Shows Abrupt Reversal From a Year Ago When Many Business Leaders Expected Business to be Flat or Decrease in 2013

2013-11-04 16:13:00| National Real Estate Investor

Margolin, Winer & Evens LLP Cautious optimism has given way to outright enthusiasm as executives throughout New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut forecast buoyant revenues in the coming year. read more

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