Friday, August 13, 2010

Stunning comment by andy revkin

Building Resilience on a Turbulent Planet - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com
[in comment five] To my eye, you have the importance of the "forcings" of population and human-driven climate change reversed. Consider last year's news from sub-Saharan Africa, where populations are confidently expected to double by midcentury. Natural cycles of century-long superdroughts were revealed in a lakebed. So climate super-extremes are inevitable, the number of people is doubling, and greenhouse-driven change, given the uncertainties, is -- at best -- a tertiary wild card.

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