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...responds in sharp jumps. These jumps appear to involve large-scale reorganizations of the Earth system. If this reading of the natural record is correct,...clearly a far more serious matter than coping with gradual warming.-' 1 The wait-and-see attitude taken by most of our politicians understandably makes...

...consider the possibility that the main response of the system to our provocation of the atmosphere will come in jumps whose timing and magnitude are unpredictable. Coping with this kind of change is clearly a far more serious matter than coping with a gradual warming. It needs an...