Talk:Climate surprise

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).

Merge into Abrupt climate change

The article states they are synonyms, and both are only stubs so they would do well to be combined and fleshed out. I'm happy to do it if no-one has any objections?--PhilMacD (talk) 23:13, 8 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. The link to the IPPC definition doesn't work and the term "climate surprise" isn't in the WG1 FAR glossary http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/glossary/ar4-wg1.pdf. "Surprises" is mentioned as a synonym for abrupt CC, along with "rapid climate change" and "abrupt events". Merging this article with abrupt CC would be an improvement. Energybeing (talk) 15:07, 31 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]