The Oil Drum

The impression I got from the IPPC study was that they recognize the normal cycles of warming and cooling over the last millenia or so, but that the addition of higher GWG levels from human use (not in dispute as far as I can see)over the last 150 years is not only adding to what may indeed been a "normal" warming cycle, but may also be destablizing weather cycles worldwide. And it is this destablization (consisting of "tipping points"?)that is what is so dangerous because of their ability to swing worldwide weather patterns into "chaotic" instabilities that permanantly alter global weather patterns for the worse. (Slowing/stopping the Atlantic convection currents, for example.) Am I wrong in this?

I've sure been hearing a lot of "the worst(take your pick-wildfires, heatwave, hurricanes, typhoons, snow storm, icestorm)in local history" in the news these days, both in the US and from around the world. My worry about mankind adapting is, that it would be extremely difficult to adapt to such chaotic and destablized weather.

Where I live, we've been in drought (our average yearly rainfall was 45 inches) for the last 6 years. And in the last 6 months we've had the hottest summer, warmest December, longest January coldsnap and worst icestorm since records have been kept.

If this keeps up, it's going to make it mighty hard to plan my peak oil edible landscape and garden. And that may be the biggest problem from global warming worldwide, rather than just increasing "warmth".

Linda