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Infographic: Degrees of Disaster
May 6, 2011
Infographic: Degrees of Disaster
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This infographic was published in A People's Forecast: The Climate Justice Issue, our 2011 special issue. To read more articles as they are published, click here.
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The Dominion is a monthly paper published by an incipient network of independent journalists in Canada. It aims to provide accurate, critical coverage that is accountable to its readers and the subjects it tackles. Taking its name from Canada's official status as both a colony and a colonial force, the Dominion examines politics, culture and daily life with a view to understanding the exercise of power.
This is by most accounts a conservative outlook
The design doesn't really do justice to the urgency of feedback effects. The box "Increasing risk of feedbacks and large-scale climate shifts" means that if methane and other trapped gasses are released in any large quantity by warming in oceans or permafrost areas, the estimates largely go out the window.
That's because the estimates here are based on human-created greenhouse gasses (GHGs), and do not account for the unknown amount of GHGs that will be released during warming. At any point starting now, we could see global average temperatures shoot up as a result, but the models don't take that into account.