Climate Craziness of the Week: 'climate denial is a form of murder'

Fortunately, he has a choice. Stop chewing his fingernails till they bleed, or take a trip to Oregon where one can free themselves of such worldly grief and peacefully enter the spiritual world. I’ll provide a map. I feel no pity.

I can tell you that it is hell . I wake up each morning closer to the day when the author of the Climate Change Act becomes PM , and there is nothing that I can do to stop it .

dp I see that it’s “a type of deep-sea microorganism that appears not to have evolved over more than 2 billion years.” I suppose being in the deep-sea helped protect it from overhead extinctions and abrupt climate change.

IPCC – TAR – 2001
The warming phase, that took place about 11,500 years ago, at the end of the Younger Dryas was also very abrupt and central Greenland temperatures increased by 7°C or more in a few decades (Johnsen et al., 1992; Grootes et al., 1993; Severinghaus et al., 1998).
http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg1/074.htm
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Abstract
Systematics and Biodiversity – Volume 8, Issue 1, 2010
Kathy J. Willis et al
4 °C and beyond: what did this mean for biodiversity in the past?
…….temperatures in mid- to high-latitudes increased by greater than 4 °C within 60 years, and sea levels rose by up to 3 m higher than present. For these intervals in time, case studies of past biotic responses are presented to demonstrate the scale and impact of the magnitude and rate of such climate changes on biodiversity. We argue that although the underlying mechanisms responsible for these past changes in climate were very different (i.e. natural processes rather than anthropogenic), the rates and magnitude of climate change are similar to those predicted for the future and therefore potentially relevant to understanding future biotic response. What emerges from these past records is evidence for rapid community turnover, migrations, development of novel ecosystems and thresholds from one stable ecosystem state to another, but there is very little evidence for broad-scale extinctions due to a warming world. Based on this evidence from the fossil record, we make four recommendations for future climate-change integrated conservation strategies.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14772000903495833
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Abstract
Richard B. Alley
Ice-core evidence of abrupt climate changes
…..As the world slid into and out of the last ice age, the general cooling and warming trends were punctuated by abrupt changes. Climate shifts up to half as large as the entire difference between ice age and modern conditions occurred over hemispheric or broader regions in mere years to decades…….
…The more dramatic of the warmings have involved ~8°C warming (8, 25) and ~2× increases in snow accumulation (9), several-fold or larger drops in wind-blown materials (17), and ~50% increase in methane, indicating large changes in global wetland area (5, 24)….
http://www.pnas.org/content/97/4/1331.full
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Abstract
Reef drowning during the last deglaciation: Evidence for catastrophic sea-level rise and ice-sheet collapse
Elevations and ages of drowned Acropora palmata reefs from the Caribbean-Atlanticregion document three catastrophic, metre-scale sea-level-rise events during the last deglaciation…..
[paper]
…. Such drowning eventsmust have been truly catastrophic, involv-ing—to our knowledge—the fastest rates of glacio-eustatic sea-level rise yet reported…..The exact duration of the CREs is unknown but, given that the mini-mum rate of sea-level rise was >45 mm/yr,the duration of the 14.2 ka event must have been…..
academia.edu/200254/Reef_drowning_during_the_last_deglaciation_Evidence_for_catastrophic_sea-level_rise_and_ice-sheet_collapse