I’m not much for panic (stick me near a BWO hatch without my small fly box and you might develop a different impression), but when the NOAA’s senior scientist thinks 1000 years of climate change is now inevitable (how bad it gets depends on what we do right now), you start wondering about buying high-elevation property farther north:
A new scientific study led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reaches a powerful conclusion about the climate change caused by future increases of carbon dioxide: to a large extent, there’s no going back.
The pioneering study, led by NOAA senior scientist Susan Solomon, shows how changes in surface temperature, rainfall, and sea level are largely irreversible for more than 1,000 years after carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are completely stopped. The findings appear during the week of January 26 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
“Our study convinced us that current choices regarding carbon dioxide emissions will have legacies that will irreversibly change the planet,†said Solomon, who is based at NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colo.
“It has long been known that some of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activities stays in the atmosphere for thousands of years,†Solomon said. “But the new study advances the understanding of how this affects the climate system.â€
While the Underground isn’t all about gloom and doom, we do have to wonder what fly fishing’s going to look like in 50 years – will brownliners Singlebarbed.com and Roughfisher.com become the “old guy” tweed sites?
And if that’s true, could the end of civilization be far behind?
See you in the desert, Tom Chandler.





























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