Climate Change Could Cross Key Threshold in a Decade, Scientists Say (reuters.com)

The planet could pass a key target on world temperature rise in about a decade, prompting accelerating loss of glaciers, steep declines in water availability, worsening land conflicts and deepening poverty, scientists said this week. But the planet is already two-thirds of the way to that lower and safer goal, and could begin to pass it in about a decade, according to Richard Betts, head of climate impacts research at the UK Met Office's Hadley Centre. Reuters reports: With world emissions unlikely to slow quickly enough to hit that target, it will probably be necessary to remove some carbon pollution from the atmosphere to stabilize the planet, scientists said. That could happen by planting forests or by capturing and then pumping underground emissions from power plants. But other changes -- such as reducing food waste and creating more sustainable diets, with less beef and fewer imported greenhouse vegetables -- could also play a big role in meeting the goal, without so many risks, he said.

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"Scientists said this week"

[RobotRunAmok]

Whose Scientists? Theirs or Ours?

Re:Pretty sure I read this story last decade.

[Gr8Apes]

Let me show you Venus, perhaps you'd like to visit?

Slashdot Is Full of Idiots Now

[Hardhead_7]

I remember when I used to come to Slashdot for the comments, but now it's full of science-denying idiots. Oh well, back to Hacker News. :)

Re:Pretty sure I read this story last decade.

[Anonymous Coward]

Meanwhile http://www.cnsnews.com/news/ar...

I did not read your link, but when the headline is a fucking lie , there's no need to.

Re:Pretty sure I read this story last decade.

[WillAffleckUW]

No, I read the scientific research online, n00b

Re:DGW - Dinosaurogenic Global Warming

[mi]

This would be very valid criticism of a theoretical climate model that would predict that it would get there and stay there.

There is simply no valid climate model. Period. The entire discipline is in shambles as most of the adherents — either clueless politics-driven enthusiasts, or crooks grabbing taxpayers' money.

Try it yourself — cite successful predictions made by "Climate Science" over the last 30 years, that have come true... Rules are simple:

• Each citation is to include two links — one to the prediction being made, the other — to its confirmation within, say, 20% of the predicted value (if quantifiable).
• The prediction must be somewhat useful — predicting, that it will get "hotter or colder", for example, is not acceptable.
• The two links must be at least several years apart. Lauding a prediction after it came true does not count — otherwise I too would like to claim some government money for recording numerous predictions 5 years ago (one for each possible cm of snow on Oct 31, 2016) and publishing only the successful ones today.

Could you list even 2 or 3 such entries? I doubt it — many have tried...