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IEA Warns of Irreversible Climate Change In 5 Years
iONiUM writes "As a follow up to the previous slashdot story, there has been a new release by the International Energy Agency indicating that within 5 years we will have irreversible climate change. According to the IEA, 'There are few signs that the urgently needed change in direction in global energy trends is under way. Although the recovery in the world economy since 2009 has been uneven, and future economic prospects remain uncertain, global primary energy demand rebounded by a remarkable 5% in 2010, pushing CO2 emissions to a new high. Subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption of fossil fuels jumped to over $400bn (£250.7bn).'"
Does this mean we won't have to listen to any more bullshit about global warming after 2016?
Yeah. I didn't think so either.
I accepted the fact that on a long enough timescale, everything is temporary. Even human life itself on this planet. So I'm living it up, not giving a fuck. I'll die someday but that will be long before this planet comes to an end.
The game.
When the so-called experts can do something simple - like be able to predict the weather - I might consider taking a small sip of the cool aid.
Honestly, do you want to give the green light to scientists to do experiments with our one and only fragile global climatic system?
This whole latest propaganda drive around about the time that the climate convention is being held in Durban has only one purpose - to speed up the implementation of the global carbon tax/credit scam.
PS: Why do you think that humans are not part of nature?
Participatory Governance : The only feasible option for a real democracy, where everyone really does have a say.
>>So again I ask: what are you going to do about it? What will you or have you changed about your lifestyle to help avert global disaster?
I plan on being a sanctimonious bastard to everyone I know, while running my AC 24/7 and flying about in a private jet, when I'm not at home in my 10,000 square foot mansion with low-efficiency windows.
I'll then form a carbon trading company in which guilty environmentalists who commute to work every day can pay to "offset" their emissions by having me stay at home and not work at all, as I can live off the offset money.
Oh, wait, sorry, I'm not Al Gore.
In all seriousness, while I do run my AC pretty heavily in the summer, my net energy consumption from the grid is minimal (I have solar on my house), and I do work out of my house, so I figure I'm in the top 99th percentile of Americans. No need to kill myself bicycling.
Even assuming that that doesn't happen, the predictable effects of a 2 degC rise are bad enough with loss of arable land, alterations to fresh water routes - and quantity, increase in storm violence and damage, worse flooding of coastal regions etc. The higher we go, the worse they get.
This is the kind of unscientific sensationalism we need to get away from. There is very little scientific evidence of this stuff. The computer models are so inaccurate below the continental scale that they are useless, and we still don't have models that can predict El Nino/Southern Oscillation.
We need to get away from this sensational crap and go back to science.....doing observations, and figuring out what actually will happen, not making random wild guesses.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
...natural climate change.
This is like warning us about irreversible breathing, or irreversible gravity, or irreversible earthquakes. Climate changes - it always has, and it always will, and funnily enough, its changes will always surprise you.
Seriously, no matter what you may believe about the anthropogenic components of global average temperature, this kind of overhyped doomsday rhetoric does *nothing* to forward the important scientific work that should be going into studying climate and its many variations both past, present and future.
The sky is falling indeed.
BS
When are these people going to figure it out that nobody is going to believe this man made warming crap can be fixed, if we just make Al Gore and his friends trillionaires by paying carbon taxes? You can't do anything about climate change by paying carbon taxes.
The research is crap, and is some of the worst science I have ever read. I keep waiting for a decent paper on the topic and all of them are crap. Half of them are funded by research foundations which have obvious one world goverment overtones or pure pandering to the NSF to keep that grant money flowing.
The whole man made climate change research establishment keeps getting whacked in the head more and more data every year that climate change is from either newly local solar system condition discoveries or just plain advances in particle theory, way to go CERN!!!
When are these people going to produce a decent piece of research which doesn,t embarrass themselves in front of people who are not business majoors looking to invest in carbon credit scams?
Hack
Got Geometrodynamics? Awe, too hard to figure out? Too bad.