Very good. Do you think we're likely to see a system that obeys these principles at all? I feel like what we're getting is an extremely poorly designed cap-and-trade system, where nearly all the permits are given away rather than auctioned.
I am around - have commitments tomorrow, and am planning on working most of the day Sunday, but could be persuaded into a coffee/smoothie break sometime Sunday if you're around downtown...
I would like to ask a climate-change science question. Can you give me a ballpark best guess (as these things go - as precise as a global average could ever be) for ocean salinity, acidity, and temperature in 10-15 years? can you point me to educated best guesses for this sort of thing?
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Hmm. The real answer would involve digging data out of the CMIP3 archive... the quick and dirty answer is that global average temperatures are expected to go up about 0.2 degrees per decade for the next decade or two (and at a faster pace after that) (that was the estimate from the IPCC AR4 report in the projections chapter, I believe): the ocean surface will warm slightly less than that, and the ocean depths will warm much less than that... of course, there is uncertainty around that global 0.2 degree rate. As well as regional variation
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I'm in DC this weekend, if you're around. :-)
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Can you give me a ballpark best guess (as these things go - as precise as a global average could ever be) for ocean salinity, acidity, and temperature in 10-15 years?
can you point me to educated best guesses for this sort of thing?
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