National Geographic: How to cut down on emissions
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UN climate change panel warns emissions rising despite reduction efforts
BERLIN -- The United Nations' expert panel on climate change is highlighting the disconnect between international goals to fight global warming and what's actually being done to attain them.
Emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases must drop by 40-70 per cent by 2050 to keep the global temperature rise below the 2-degree C cap set in UN climate talks, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in a report released Sunday.
The opposite is happening now. On average global emissions rose by 2.2 per cent -- or 1 gigaton -- a year between 2000 and 2010, outpacing growth in previous decades to reach "unprecedented levels" despite some efforts to contain them, the IPCC said.
"There is a clear message from science: To avoid dangerous interference with the climate system, we need to move away from business as usual," said Ottmar Edenhofer, one of three co-chairs of the IPCC working group looking at ways to fight climate change.
The report states that "mitigation policy could devalue fossil fuel assets and reduce revenues for fossil fuel exporters."
That's a message Canada should take to heart, said Christian Holz, the executive director of Climate Action Network Canada.
"This should be a stark reminder for Canadians that the current path of the Harper government -- to put all our economic eggs in the tarsands basket -- is not sustainable and that Canada is losing out on the benefits of a transition to a low-carbon economy," he said in a statement Sunday.
Emissions rising to 'unprecedented levels,' UN climate change panel warns | CTV News
BERLIN -- The United Nations' expert panel on climate change is highlighting the disconnect between international goals to fight global warming and what's actually being done to attain them.
Emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases must drop by 40-70 per cent by 2050 to keep the global temperature rise below the 2-degree C cap set in UN climate talks, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in a report released Sunday.
The opposite is happening now. On average global emissions rose by 2.2 per cent -- or 1 gigaton -- a year between 2000 and 2010, outpacing growth in previous decades to reach "unprecedented levels" despite some efforts to contain them, the IPCC said.
"There is a clear message from science: To avoid dangerous interference with the climate system, we need to move away from business as usual," said Ottmar Edenhofer, one of three co-chairs of the IPCC working group looking at ways to fight climate change.
The report states that "mitigation policy could devalue fossil fuel assets and reduce revenues for fossil fuel exporters."
That's a message Canada should take to heart, said Christian Holz, the executive director of Climate Action Network Canada.
"This should be a stark reminder for Canadians that the current path of the Harper government -- to put all our economic eggs in the tarsands basket -- is not sustainable and that Canada is losing out on the benefits of a transition to a low-carbon economy," he said in a statement Sunday.
Emissions rising to 'unprecedented levels,' UN climate change panel warns | CTV News
Actually they are looking into sequesteration as a valid option now.
So you don't have to worry your little heart about a socialist agenda anymore but you can still post silly gifs if you like.
Seizing assets... nope not a socialist tactic at all.
Then finally will the climate stop changing?
Then they are just going to try and steal for no reason except greed and want I suppose.
It's like sending in your pledge to World Vision, the Lepers Foundation, Jerry's Kids, PBS or the Ponds Institute.
It washes your conscience clean as a whistle.
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The same UN that taxes us .02% of our GDP for UNDEP projects that turn peasants into energy consumers?
And cauliflower.
