Hello Joule,

Your last paragraph is a better and more concise wording of what I was trying to express--Thxs

I have been trying to google more info on this phenomenon, to get a better handle on just how close we are to an ever-increasing number of cascading inflection points, but it is frustrating because many technical reports are behind paywalls.  Makes one wonder if the critical data is top secret-- that would explain why the milgov is trying to muzzle James Hansen and other scientists.  Who knows?

Bob Shaw in Phx,AZ  Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?

You might be better off putting your question to the folks at RealClimate.org. They're pretty hospitable, and some of them seem to be on the climate science cutting edge.