Governments 'Not on Track' To Cap Temperatures at Below 2 Degrees: UN (reuters.com)

Governments are not on track to meet a goal of the 2015 Paris agreement of capping temperatures well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) before the end of the century, a United Nations official said on Sunday ahead of climate-change talks in Bangkok this week. From a report: Patricia Espinosa, head of the Executive Secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which steers the climate talks, said both the public and private sector need to act with urgency to avoid "catastrophic effects". The Paris climate agreement, adopted by almost 200 nations in 2015, set a goal of limiting warming to "well below" a rise of 2 degrees C above pre-industrial times while "pursuing efforts" for the tougher goal of 1.5 degrees C. "1.5 is the goal that is needed for many islands and many countries that are particularly vulnerable to avoid catastrophic effects. In many cases it means the survival of those countries. With the pledges we have on the table now we are not on track to achieve those goals," Espinosa told Reuters in a telephone interview on Sunday in Bangkok.

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Re:Go fuck yourself caffeinated bacon/crimson tsun

[CaffeinatedBacon]

But coal isn't the reason idiot. You are still twice as bad, even with all that coal.

Re: We're hosed

[drinkypoo]

Nuclear is clean, fossil fools are not.

Solar and wind are clean, nuclear is not. Strip mining, and waste which is lying around in pools waiting for a problem to happen. When the waste is interred, you can call it a solved problem.

Re: We're hosed

[angel'o'sphere]

Greenpeace always said: go for wind and solar and biomass.

And actually, we all know: nuclear is bad. So what is your point?

Oh, you got not evacuated from Chernobyl or Fukushima? Wow, what a relieve for you ...