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Earth Will Likely Be Much Warmer In 2100 Than We Anticipated, Scientists Warn (vice.com)
According to a new analysis of the most realistic climate models to date, global temperature rise by 2100 could be 15 percent higher than the highest projections from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). What this means is that cuts in greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide (CO2) will have to be even greater than expected to meet the Paris climate target of keeping global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius. Motherboard reports: The world is a long way from making sufficient emission reductions to meet the Paris climate targets to begin with -- nevermind cutting out another 15 percent. But there's some good news, too. Both rich and poor countries have begun to move away from coal and oil, the two biggest CO2 sources, according to many energy analysts. Patrick Brown is a researcher at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Pasadena, California, a co-author of the study published Wednesday in Nature. "Our results imply 15 percent less cumulative emissions than previously calculated [are needed] in order to stay below 2 degrees Celsius," he told me. Brown and co-authors focused on finding out what future warming might be, using only the climate models that best replicate observations over the last 15-20 years. On a business-as-usual emissions trajectory, they found that the mean global temperature rise would be 4.8 degrees Celsius by 2100, compared to the IPCC estimate of 4.3 degrees Celsius. The latter estimate is considered catastrophic for our planet, and would lead to sea level rise of over 30 feet, potentially putting the homes of 600 million people underwater.
We should anticipate less so that to compensate for the anticipation effects.
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Anything to distract from the fact that, per capita, USA is the world's most polluting country. Hey, look at China! China, China, China! CHINA! What about her emails? I mean, China!
How strong does the evidence have to be before Republicans believe there's a real problem?
Republicans? What of the Democrats? They keep screaming about the need to dispose of the nuclear waste from current nuclear power plants, and how we can't build new ones until we have a place to put it all. At the same time they've held up a perfectly viable storage site at Yucca Mountain.
I'll believe the Democrats are serious about a real global warming problem when they get serious about letting the USA build more nuclear power reactors. Forget that even. How about getting serious about shutting down the aging nuclear power we got? That's a lot of electricity capacity in nuclear power right now. They want a place to put that waste from decommissioning them? Then open up Yucca Mountain. If they want to replace that electricity generation capacity then we need to clear some serious land for those solar collectors and windmills. That means putting panels where the turtles crawl and windmill blades where the eagles fry... I mean fly.
We need energy. Fuck the eagles. I mean, not like literally or anything, but let them die. If these Democrats won't allow new nuclear then we are going to be killing a lot of eagles with windmills and solar collectors. That's fine by me but I'm sure a lot of people will be upset by that.
Which is it Democrats? Can we build some nuclear, wind, and solar? Or are we just all going to sit in the dark when the lights go out? Are the eagles so precious that we can't be around to appreciate them in the future? Eagles only have beauty and value because humans gave it to them. Beauty and value means nothing if there is no one to hold such concepts in their minds.
Blame the Republicans if you like but they are the ones keeping the coal and oil flowing, and the lights on, while the Democrats make up their mind on how to replace that coal and oil.
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OH NO!! It's going to be 0.2 warmer instead of 0.1 THAT'S A 100% INCREASE. WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE....unless you implement Socialism on a global scale and then we will be ok, well maybe. We may need all your rights too.
Cue R.E.M. It's the End of the World as We Know it.