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

Posted by msmash on from the climate-control dept.

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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  1. DGW - Dinosaurogenic Global Warming by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The Jurassic period. O2 in atmosphere was 130% modern levels. CO2 was at 1950ppm, 5-7 times modern levels. The temperature was a whole 3 DEGREES C over modern times! Oh no! The Jurassic DGW, Dinosaurogenic Global Warming, shows that those Dinosaurs - with their Airplanes, SUVs, Coal Fire Plants and Cars and stuff, you know, those Dinosaurs and their DGW destroyed THE WHOLE PLANET!! With their DGW! Look, who wants 26% atmospheric oxygen? More air to breathe? Who wants that? And who wants more CO2 @1950 ppm, you know, to make all those plants and trees convert that CO2 into a higher O2! Who wants that! And we DON'T want the massive biodiversity of the Jurassic, no, we don't want more plants and animals and trees, no.
    Any time period the warmunists want to "prove" there is AGW the warmunists just cherry pick ranges. And now I give the warmunists what the need on a silver platter - now they have the perfect example - the Dinosaurs and their horrible DGW (Dinosauric Global Warming) that destroyed the Jurassic... Wait, no, it didn't, it was the best time for life on earth with 1950 ppm atmospheric CO2!

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    1. Re:DGW - Dinosaurogenic Global Warming by mi · · Score: 0, Troll

      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...

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  2. Ten years, you say? by OakDragon · · Score: -1, Troll

    A decade out... funny how that 10 years number always seems to figure into these things.

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  3. "Scientists said this week" by RobotRunAmok · · Score: 0, Troll

    Whose Scientists? Theirs or Ours?

  4. Re:Pretty sure I read this story last decade. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm so sick of these scare tactics. They'll do anything to keep global warming on the nightly news because they think that's the only way the funds will keep flowing and quite frankly these 'climate change scientists' are not qualified to do anything else and they know they'd quickly find themselves on the unemployment line if people wised up and realized this is all way, way overblown. If I see one more headline about 'Greenland Ice Sheets Melting WAY Faster Than Scientists Thought' or 'Temperature Rise Could Be Irreversible Within 20 Years!' or 'Temperatures Rising At Fastest Rate in 700,000 Years' or whatever attention grabber they come up with, I'm going to start burning tires in my back yard.

  5. Re:Pretty sure I read this story last decade. by Gr8Apes · · Score: 0, Troll

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

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  6. Slashdot Is Full of Idiots Now by Hardhead_7 · · Score: 0, Troll

    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. :)

  7. Re:Pretty sure I read this story last decade. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

  8. Re:Pretty sure I read this story last decade. by WillAffleckUW · · Score: 1, Troll

    No, I read the scientific research online, n00b

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  9. Re:Pretty sure I read this story last decade. by Crashmarik · · Score: -1, Troll

    http://www.miamiandbeaches.com...

    Yep there's ocean drive (hint it's named ocean drive because it's next to the ocean) flooding. Damn it looks like Atlantis.