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Abrupt Climate Change

Refers to the possibility that climate change can occur very rapidly, as well as gradually over time. Most theories speculate that these sudden shifts occur as a result of major trigger events such as the slowing or changing of ocean currents due to polar ice melt.

Also see feedback loops.
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“Iraq and a lot of the skirmishes we are in are about energy. And I think, to put it in a nutshell, we feel it makes more sense to put wind turbines on our prairie instead of our fine young men and women under the prairie."
Kirk Lowell, Concordia KS - home to Meridian Way wind farm
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