Climate Russian Roulette: But what's in the loaded chamber?

Bite Source: Wallace Broecker, (1987) "Unpleasant Surprises in the Greenhouse," Nature, vol 441, June 29, pp 1032-33. Quoted in Hayden Washington & John Cook, Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand (2011), p 32.

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Continued release of greenhouse gases is like playing "Russian Roulette with the climate, hoping that the future will hold no unpleasant surprises. No one knows what lies in the active chamber of the gun."

-- Oceangrapher, Wallace Broecker, 1987.

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by Elyse

April 27, 2012

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Russian roulette (Russian: ??????? ???????, Russkaya rkultea) is a potentially lethal game of chance in which participants place a single round in a revolver, spin the cylinder, place the muzzle against their head and pull the trigger. Russian refers to the supposed country of origin of the game and roulette to the element of risk-taking and the spinning of the revolver's cylinder being reminiscent of spinning a roulette wheel.

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April 27, 2012

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