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We only have a 5 percent chance of avoiding 'dangerous' global warming, a study finds [3 years left]
Washington Post ^
| July 31, 2017
| Chris Mooney
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.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; climatechangefraud; climatechangelies; fakescience; globalwarming
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To: Innovative
Only 5%? Well that does it for me. I’m going out using all the energy I can. Nothing but T-Bones from here on out. Going to trade my Prius for an F-350 pickup. It just don’t make no different. I plan to fiddle while the world burns.
To: Jim Robinson
As was often said on StarTrek: “Dammit Jim!” Hope you have life jackets for the server.
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posted on
08/01/2017 5:22:04 PM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: MAGAthon
I saw Dunkirk this weekend and Al Gore's "sequel" came up as a trailer.
At first I thought it was going to be brought to you by the Ad Council, or PBS, or NPR, or the good people at the Ford Foundation.
The people who bring you Sesame Street.
Alas, no. It was a real trailer for a fictional movie by Al Gore.
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posted on
08/01/2017 5:45:00 PM PDT
by
boop
(I'd wish you luck, but you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it!)
To: abclily
That is brilliant. So well put to the god creatures who think they are something of importance!
To: Innovative
Just like we couldn’t avoid acid rain, world food shortage, peak oil and all of the other lib created nonsense.
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posted on
08/01/2017 5:54:20 PM PDT
by
amnestynone
(We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
To: raiderboy
These weather - phobes are so frightened the their grant monies will dry-up. What pathetic anti-science losers.
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posted on
08/01/2017 5:55:29 PM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
To: abclily
Yep - liberals have no clue about reality. You are right...if there is global warming, it is caused by that huge ball of fire in the sky.
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posted on
08/01/2017 6:28:26 PM PDT
by
DennisR
(Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
To: DennisR
Only a 5% chance of success. Forget it. Let’s party until the burns up. Just like the 60’s again.
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posted on
08/01/2017 6:40:51 PM PDT
by
Kozy
(new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
To: Innovative; 11B40; A Balrog of Morgoth; A message; ACelt; Aeronaut; AFPhys; AlexW; alrea; ...
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posted on
08/01/2017 8:47:54 PM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(April 2006 Message from Dan http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm)
To: Innovative
We only have a 5 percent chance of avoiding 'dangerous' global warming, a study findsAre you thereal?
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posted on
08/01/2017 8:52:57 PM PDT
by
Oratam
To: Kozy
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posted on
08/01/2017 9:25:00 PM PDT
by
DennisR
(Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
To: Innovative
Only 3 more years left? Jeez, I can't watch the kids grow up...I guess I'll have to have a Muslim blow me and the deplorable family up...
Since it came from the landfill called the UN, I'd call it fake news...
I believe I insulted landfills by comparing them to the UN..😀
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posted on
08/02/2017 4:54:30 AM PDT
by
Deplorable American1776
(Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
To: ConservaTeen
Joseph Goebbels, head Nazi liar and propagandist. His picture is usually posted first on the climate change alarmist/Chicken Little threads.
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posted on
08/02/2017 8:45:21 AM PDT
by
Cecily
To: Innovative
So there was no global warming before mans existence ?
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