Posted on 11/24/2014 11:35:31 AM PST by Beave Meister
The world is locked into 1.5°C global warming, posing severe risks to lives and livelihoods around the world, according to a new climate report commissioned by the World Bank. The report, which called on a large body of scientific evidence, found that global warming of close to 1.5°C above pre-industrial times – up from 0.8°C today – is already locked into Earth's atmospheric system by past and predicted greenhouse gas emissions.
Such an increase could have potentially catastrophic consequences for mankind, causing the global sea level to rise more than 30 centimeters by 2100, droughts to become more severe and placing almost 90 percent of coral reefs at risk of extinction."A world even 1.5°C [warmer] will mean more severe droughts and global sea level rise, increasing the risk of damage from storm surges and crop loss and raising the cost of adaptation for millions of people," the report with multiple authors said. "These changes are already underway, with global temperatures 0.8 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times, and the impact on food security, water supplies and livelihoods is just beginning." The World Bank called on scientists at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Climate Analytics and asked them to look at the likely impacts of present day (0.8°C), 2°C and 4°C warming on agricultural production, water resources, cities and ecosystems across the world. Their findings, collated in the Bank's third report on climate change published on Monday, specifically looked at the risks climate change poses to lives and livelihoods across Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and the Middle East and North Africa.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
god, can we stop the incessant wailing and gnashing of teeth now?
Only wish that 1.5o C rise in temperature were so. We could go to 2o, and 1500 - 1800 ppm of CO2 as well, for a much healthier, greener planet. And major productive agricultural opportunities in Canada and the Russian north.
Bankers and bean counters are some of the best climate scientists I know. LOL! Clowns!
My thoughts exactly.
Pass the sunblock.
The never give up. Once their scam is discovered, they double down. Just like Obama after the elections.
The World Bank
lol
Perfect. Expected. and Timely.
The data suggests, this winter will definitively prove global warming cum climate change increasingly impossible to sell... so it must be sold now.
Hence the UN announcements and now this... Banks are now climate experts.
Join the “Day of Reckoning” protest Freepers. Stand up!! and be counted.
Be able to look your kids in the face and tell them I helped stop the mad men who tried to destroy our Free Republic or at the very least I did all I could.
Either way find your sacred honor as an American Patriot. Let’s roll.
Directed at these bankers, not at any Freeper...
And the WB is going to get “its" money even if it has to lobby the feds to lay constitutionally indefensible federal taxes on citizens to get it.
I would like to know how they come up with these figures when there are so many variables involved.
I certainly hope so. We have an Ice Age to stave off.
Good. Then it is settled science that there is nothing we can do about it.
I fart in their general direction ...
5.56mm
IIRC, the data dump from the climate scientists revealed they were in contact with the World Bank and Goldman Sachs.
Less than 1 ft of water over the next 86 years. Why not 6 ft? Why not 1/2 ft?
If we are already "locked-in" then nothing can be done and we don't have to hear about this crap any longer.
I sent this solution to al bore
More desalinization plants. We’ll drink down the level of sea water.
Chicken entrails.
Immediate pre-industrial times were what is called the Little Ice Age. Not surprising at all that we've warmed since then. It is, in fact, a very good thing.
Physicist Howard Hayden's one-letter disproof of global warming claims [pre-Climategate]Dear Administrator Jackson:
I write in regard to the Proposed Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases Under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act, Proposed Rule, 74 Fed. Reg. 18,886 (Apr. 24, 2009), the so-called "Endangerment Finding."
It has been often said that the "science is settled" on the issue of CO2 and climate. Let me put this claim to rest with a simple one-letter proof that it is false.
The letter is s, the one that changes model into models. If the science were settled, there would be precisely one model, and it would be in agreement with measurements.
Alternatively, one may ask which one of the twenty-some models settled the science so that all the rest could be discarded along with the research funds that have kept those models alive.
We can take this further. Not a single climate model predicted the current cooling phase. If the science were settled, the model (singular) would have predicted it.
(excerpted from Professor Hayden's letter to Lisa P. Jackson, Administrator Environmental Protection Agency. More at link.)
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