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...glaciers, it turns out, can move with surprising speed, and so can nature. What few people reckoned on was that global climate systems are booby-trapped with tipping points and feedback loops, thresholds past which the slow creep of environmental decay gives way to sudden and self-perpetuating collapse. Pump enough CO2 into the sky, and that last part per million of greenhouse gas behaves like the 212th degree Fahrenheit that turns a pot of hot water into a plume of billowing steam. Melt enough Greenland ice, and you reach the point at which you're not simply dripping meltwater...
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...TIME: The idea of tipping points and feedback loops catches a lot of people by surprise. Were the scientists blind-sided...
...have taken this type of criticism in stride. “People across campus were interested, and reacted, which is a fantastic thing both for the magazine itself and in helping us craft the second issue,” Kaden wrote. “We have taken all our feedback and tuned the content and style of the magazine,” Kaden added. “The original vision is certainly there, but it will only be better.” Scene’s second issue is expected to be released during spring reading period...
...tempo punctuated guitar in “Blood” propels toward the murderously insistent refrain, “blood runs through your veins, that’s where our similarity ends.” Later, in “Fingers in the Factories,” feedback-laden guitars charge along a simple, violent drumbeat, running together through harsh lyrics (think “dark satanic mills”) then crashing into a pounding chorus. As the album continues, however, the limited vocal range and thin instrumental palette leaves Editors sounding repetitive. Without the energy...