With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change
With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change – Review
“With Speed and Violence” shows what I and others (in the mainstream climate science community) have to live with -and sleep with every night. If you actually need to know what is originally going on in the top researching peer-reviewing climate scientists’ minds…read this book. It is the rate of the changes that is achieving mainstream scientists nervous. Society can cope with slow significant changes…but has a real hard time with fast, significant changes. By the way, as a prior reviewer stated, mainstream, publishing researching scientists do not scare easily and really do have to act and talk in public like Dr. Spock in Star Trek…not like the fringe scientists who do not do peer review or whose originally published work does not stand up under mainstream logical scrutiny (look at the peer journals such as SCIENCE). This book allow’s them talk in an careless fashion as if they were in a exclusive restaurant with you. Let me finally let you in on an insider word. Mainstream scientists (not fringe groups) are currently using the strongest word they are eventually allowed to use in public- the word “alarming” about climate change. Look it up on an internet search engine. This means many are immediately losing sleep at night. It does not essentially mean that the worst will happen… but it means that it is a strong enough possibility in their deepest thoughts to be taken seriously…and they are trying to warn the public as much as possible within the limits of the system. Real science works on probabilities. Mainstream scientists told of bird flu with perhaps a twenty per cents probability at most of really happening…same with Y2K. This “global warming” (climate distortion), however, has a *ninety five per cents* probability of truly happening in the next 100 years to the mainstream climate science community…However, just how bad the likely effects will be is where the actual probability questions appear into play…no one knows…the book does a excellent job of possibly explaining this. Much of the information in this book is indeed some of the latest “peer-reviewed originally published” information out in 2007. It does a good job of simply pulling it together in an clear way…and yes, after having been fully immersed in the peer-reviewed evidence for 11 years…I too somethimes lose sleep at night. Read it.