Kicking off the afternoon sessions on the first day of this year’s NZ CCC conference, Professor Barry Smit of the University of Guelph in Canada launched his keynote — titled From theory to practice, from impacts to adaptation (abstract) — with a rousing climate version of Let It Be. I caught up with him during the evening reception, but didn’t ask him to sing…
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Alas i can’t see adobe flash stuff.
SKS has a good summary on the Inuit experience to augment what Barry is saying:
http://www.skepticalscience.com/Inuit-Climate-Change.html
Changing a hard frozen land and sea into slush for significant parts of the year represents one of these ‘phase change’ transitions with non-gradual and significant consequences to a gradual warming.