hi skies
Caught the end of this last night, while I was wrestling with homework and whether or not I want to bother following Kingdom Hospital.
"The Contrail Effect" is a perfect example of a perturbation - intentional or no - of a system. In this case, the global climate system: emissions from planes represent a positive feedback loop, more input, something which accelerates effects.
Because scientists say that the so-called Contrail Effect may have skewed current future climate estimates, according to a Brit researcher interviewed in the program, there is an outside chance - represented as extreme, but a possibility all the same - of a spike in global temps of up to 10 degrees.
Remember, an initial shift in global temperatures considerably less than that started the Ice Age. Only three degrees worth of warming ended it. If we think about the planet the as the penultimate system we live in and are a part of, what will a breakdown of relationships on that scale look like? That's the important part - not just the horror of huge swathes of species dying away or continents going fallow - but that we need those huges swathes and continents, as much as we need to take care of them. In a system, a failure in stewardship is more than just a failure in stewardship.
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