By Richard Smith
Truthout | News Analysis - Wednesday, 15 January 2014
Given the relentless growth of global GHG emissions (currently growing
at 2 percent per year, up 70 percent from 1990) and ever-higher
concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere (currently at 400
parts per million, up 30 percent from 1990), climate scientist Kevin
Anderson at the Radical Emissions Reduction Conference (December 10-11,
2013, at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in the United
Kingdom) concluded that "Today, in 2013, we face an unavoidably radical
future." The International Energy Agency (IEA) says that "the current
state of affairs is unacceptable. ... Energy-related CO2
emissions are at historic highs" and emission trends are "perfectly in
line with a temperature increase of 6 degrees Celsius, which would have
devastating consequences for the planet." In similar vein,
PricewaterhouseCooper, the UK government chief scientist, and a growing
body of academics and researchers are allying current emission trends
with 4-degree Celsius to 6-degree Celsius futures.1 Tyndall scientists drew the only possible conclusion:
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