Posted on 08/01/2017 2:04:50 PM PDT by Innovative
Christiana Figureres, the former head of the United Nations’ Framework Convention on Climate Change, recently joined with a group of climate scientists and policy wonks to state there are three years left to get emissions moving sharply downward. If, that is, we’re holding out hope of limiting the warming of the globe to below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial temperatures, often cited as the threshold where “dangerous” warming begins (although in truth, that’s a matter of interpretation).
Yet a battery of recent studies call into question even that limited optimism. Last week, a group of climate researchers published research suggesting the climate has been warming for longer than we thought due to human influences — in essence, pushing the so-called “preindustrial” baseline for the planet’s warming backwards in time. The logic is clear: If the Earth has already warmed more than we thought due to human activities, then there’s even less remaining carbon dioxide that we can emit and still avoid 2 degrees of warming.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Figueres is a product of Al Gore’s so-called “Climate Reality Project”!
this is “rich” from Gore:
30 Jul: Guardian: Al Gore: ‘The rich have subverted all reason’
With the sequel to his blockbuster documentary An Inconvenient Truth about to be released, Al Gore tells Carole Cadwalladr how his role at the forefront of the fight against climate change consumes his life
In the film, you see him perpetually hustling, calling world leaders, rounding up solar energy entrepreneurs, training activists. Hearing information from “people you know” is at the heart of his strategy. “You need people who will look you in the eye and say: ‘Look, this is what I’ve learned, this is what you need to know.’ It works. I’ve seen it work. It is working. And it’s just getting started. We’ve got 12,000 trained leaders now.”
How many people do you think it’s impacted?
“Millions. Honestly, millions. And a non- trivial percentage of them have gone on to become ministers in their countries’ governments or take leadership roles in international organisations. They’ve had an outsized impact.
Christiana Figueres [the UN climate chief], who ran the Paris meeting, she was in the second training session I did in Tennessee...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/30/al-gore-interview-our-crumbling-planet-the-rich-have-subverted-all-reason-al-gore
Shown in this picture is one of more than 600 Viking farm houses, churches and other buildings, that have appeared in Greenland with the retreat of the glaciers. During the Medieval Warm Period, Vikings colonized Greenland and also North America. They cleared trees and converted forests into farmland. Then came the Little Ice Age and the glaciers. The Vikings retreated to Iceland and further east. We do not yet have forests and farmlands on Greenland. Although the glaciers have retreated, the uncovered ground is still tundra. That we do not yet have forests and farmland in Greenland is irrefutable proof that the Medieval Warm Period was warmer than it is today, regardless of whether human activity is now adding to the warming trend that began with the end of the Little Ice Age.
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/staffpages/uploads/geo479/Hvalsey_church_website.JPG
I hope you know that the above is a fake post!
What heat records? It has been pleasant for summer in Texas this year.
The heat appears to have come east this summer, the South Atlantic has been broiling although we’ve gotten a breather for the past several days.
How about all those people stop exhaling carbon dioxide and increasing the problem.
In simple language “DROP DEAD”.
“Only three years left” - again!
Al Gore and his man-made Global Whoring strikes again
100 percent chance the sun will be hot tomrrow.
Down side? Are you high enough Jim? ;-)
Actually we're all about 15 years too late.
So y'all now what you got to do, right, Bueller?
Bueller??
the south atlantic always broils in the summer and then it gets colder.
We might end up with waterfront property.
...the seas will rise and all coastal cities will be under water. We’re all gonna die (liberals hit hardest)!
About as much chance as they gave Donald J Trump becoming President before they started counting the returns.
Broiling more than usual this year, though. Been pushing 100 with humidity in the 90’s right up until late last week, we’ve been getting a bit of a break since then.
Who is that?
And Seattle will be under water, too. Guess what, all blue areas...
We had best start confiscating others money and nip this terrible climate change in the bud.
Sure. Right.
Anyway those are great odds. Id play the lottery every week if I could get those odds.
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