Global Warming to Bring Catastrophic Rockslides, Tsunamis? : Ecoscraps

Here’s a possible consequence of climate change you might not have heard of yet: giant rockslides that could cause devastating tsunamis.

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So how did 2 degC become so widely accepted as the `critical' level? I think it's because it is the "Goldilocks" solution: not too small, not too large, just right. If Rodhe and Azar had picked, say 0.5 degC, then we would all be long since dead, with the climate system in ruins, and nothing could help us. Perhaps people who moved to the Antarctic could survive, to paraphrase Sir David King. On the other hand, if they had picked 5.0 degC, then there would have been no need to do anything to mitigate CO2.