Global Warming Is Already Locked In, World Bank Says

NBC News.com ^ | 11/24/2014

[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.

[Beave Meister]

Gee, I wonder what interest the World Bank has in this scam? Look at Buffalo, NY....when will these idiots realize the majority of people on this planet don't believe a word of their BS.

[MeshugeMikey]

locked in....WORLD BANK...their VAULTS perhaps???

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The solution to “global warming” is to send money.

[Regulator]

Wow, an underfunded university in Poland has all the answers?

So the World Bank found a bunch of academic opportunists even more desperate then the shysters of East Anglia.

Bet they pumped this nonsense out for the price of a big lunch at the WB HQ...

[cuban leaf]

Apparently they are “all in” invested in carbon credits.

[chris37]

Stopped reading at “Global”.

[VanDeKoik]

So we went from 100 years, to 30, to 6 months, to “locked in”?

Tune in next week she we find out we’ve all be dead for 20 years, and are in purgatory.

[edh]

Does this mean that someone will sell me their oceanfront land in the Florida Keys for pennies on the dollar now???

[Tenacious 1]

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.

Did somebody dig this up from 1991? I thought we covered this already. And if the "Globe" is already warmer, why are we still talking future tense here. Are we living in the past already? Just how far back in time have we traveled?

[ryan71]

Perhaps the plan to perpetuate global banking fraud is through “Global Warming”?

[Tenacious 1]

ROFL. See Post #9. Similar thoughts.

[pepsi_junkie]

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.

Oh no, it's already too late! It's already locked in! Based on emissions already done and....predicted future emissions? Oh, so they made it up. Got it!

[dead]

OK, it's locked in, as in there's nothing that can be done.

I guess we can STFU about it now?

[Da Coyote]

There is a reason World Bank officials went into banking versus physics.

Need one say more?

[Zeppo]

The World Bank called on scientists at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Climate Analytics...

And we all know that since the Potsdam Institute is all sciency and stuff, and they wear white lab coats, then whatever they say must be true.

(Potsdam Institute was founded for the purpose of separating taxpayers from the contents of their wallets by jumping on the climate alarmism gravy train.)

[fireman15]

So despite all of the predictions from high priced government computer models... the actual data from the East Anglia Climate Research Unit shows that there has now been NO global warming for over 18 years. If you factor in the fudge factor that these charlatans build into their numbers... we are probably a good 10 years into a solid cooling trend with unfortunately more to follow. What should the World Bank and Obama do? It is the same solution as when the people have sent a clear message and a new congress is about to come into session. Double down! Obviously, they must double down before all of their waning influence from this scam is used up.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

[<1/1,000,000th%]

According to the climate scientists at the World Bank.

[jimfree]

I always go to my bank for a climate forecast.

[jimfree]

I always go to my bank for a climate forecast.