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The Scientific Excitement In Comparing Theory With Data, And Developing Some Understanding Of Global Changes That Are Occurring, Is What Makes All The Other Stuff Worth It.

We Have At Most Ten Years - Not Ten Years To Decide Upon Action, But Ten Years To Alter Fundamentally The Trajectory Of Global Greenhouse Emissions... We Are Near A Tipping Point, A Point Of No Return, Beyond Which The Built In Momentum And Feedbacks Will Carry Us To Levels Of Climate Change With Staggering Consequences For Humanity And All Of The Residents Of This Planet.

In View Of The Immense Power Of Natural Weather And Climate Fluctuations And The Great Buffering Capacity Of The Earth, Especially The Ocean, It Is Easy To Be Skeptical About Whether Small Anthropogenic Changes Of Atmospheric Composition Can Have Important Practical Impacts.

As You Get More Global Warming, You Should See An Increase In The Extremes Of The Hydrological Cycle - Droughts And Floods And Heavy Precipitation.

Imagine A Giant Asteroid On A Direct Collision Course With Earth. That Is The Equivalent Of What We Face Now With Climate Change, Yet We Dither.