Climate change and trace gases
@article{Hansen2007ClimateCA, title={Climate change and trace gases}, author={James E. Hansen and Makiko Sato and Pushker A. Kharecha and Gary L. Russell and David W. Lea and Mark E Siddall}, journal={Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences}, year={2007}, volume={365}, pages={1925 - 1954} }
Palaeoclimate data show that the Earth's climate is remarkably sensitive to global forcings. Positive feedbacks predominate. This allows the entire planet to be whipsawed between climate states. One feedback, the ‘albedo flip’ property of ice/water, provides a powerful trigger mechanism. A climate forcing that ‘flips’ the albedo of a sufficient portion of an ice sheet can spark a cataclysm. Inertia of ice sheet and ocean provides only moderate delay to ice sheet disintegration and a burst of…
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