UN Climate Change Panel: It's Happening, and It's Almost Entirely Man's Fault

iONiUM writes The UN released a new climate change report which concludes that it is indeed happening, and it's almost entirely man's fault. From the article: "The IPCC was set up in 1988 to assess global warming and its impacts. The report released Sunday caps its latest assessment, a mega-review of 30,000 climate change studies that establishes with 95-percent certainty that nearly all warming seen since the 1950s is man-made." However, the report isn't entirely dire. It goes on to say: "To get a good chance of staying below 2C, the report's scenarios show that world emissions would have to fall by between 40 and 70 percent by 2050 from current levels and to 'near zero or below in 2100.'" Below zero of course means mining existing CO2 out of the atmopshere somehow.

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Traveled down the road and back again
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Re:Haters gonna hate

[silfen]

That's nice, but it's not going to change the stance of any Anthropogenic Climate Change deniers.

We don't deny climate change, we simply don't agree with your approach of "X is bad, therefore let's outlaw it and subsidize alternatives".

but because they don't want to pay for the cleanup.

Actually, I already pay for my cleanup, emitting very little carbon.

What I don't want to have to pay for is your cleanup or Al Gore's mansion or Chinese factories and that is what proposed climate legislation comes down to in the real world, after lobbyists and politicians are through with it.

They're never going to take responsibility for cleanup. Just start cleaning up without them.

That's the right spirit: join us and take personal responsibility for reducing your own carbon emissions.