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Desert dust collected from glacier ice helps document climate change

Desert dust collected from glacier ice helps document climate change

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One Way or Another, Everything Changes

One Way or Another, Everything Changes The following is excerpted from “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate” by Naomi Klein. Copyright © 2014 by Naomi Klein. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc. All Rights Reserved. “Most projections of climate change presume that future changes greenhouse gas emissions, temperature increases and effects such as sea level rise will happen incrementally. A given amount of emission will lead to a given amount of temperature increase that will lead to a given amount of smooth incremental sea level rise. However, the geological record for the climate reflects instances where a relatively small change in one element of climate led to abrupt changes in the system as a whole. In other words, pushing global temperatures past certain thresholds could trigger abrupt, unpredictable and potentially irreversible changes that have massively disruptive and large-scale impacts. At that point, even if we do not add an

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