Talk:Climate surprise

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Where does the "IPCC defines" come from? The glossary http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/518.htm says "Rapid climate change The non-linearity of the climate system may lead to rapid climate change, sometimes called abrupt events or even surprises. Some such abrupt events may be imaginable, such as a dramatic reorganisation of the thermohaline circulation, rapid deglaciation, or massive melting of permafrost leading to fast changes in the carbon cycle. Others may be truly unexpected, as a consequence of a strong, rapidly changing, forcing of a non-linear system." which is not quite the same thing. William M. Connolley 20:30:22, 2005-09-05 (UTC).