Climate can be a quick-change artist

By Lance Olsen, Unfiltered 8-31-07

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" A committee of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has called this
reorientation in the thinking of scientists a veritable 'paradigm shift.' "
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Physics Today
August 2003

The Discovery of Rapid Climate Change
http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-56/iss-8/p30.html
Spencer Weart

Excerpt:

"During the 1960s and 1970s, other lines of research made it plausible that the global climate could shift radically within a few hundred years. In the 1980s and 1990s, further studies reduced the scale to the span of a single century. Today, there is evidence that severe change can take less than a decade. A committee of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has called this reorientation in the thinking of scientists a veritable 'paradigm shift.' The new paradigm of abrupt global climate change, the committee reported in 2002, ' has been well established by research over the last decade, but this new thinking is little known and scarcely appreciated in the wider community of natural and social scientists and policymakers.' "

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http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-56/iss-8/p30.html

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