DOOMAGE!!!!
Posted on 11/09/2011 7:32:33 PM PST by NormsRevenge
The world has just five years to avoid being trapped in a scenario of perilous climate change and extreme weather events, the International Energy Agency (IEA) warned on Wednesday.
On current trends, "rising fossil energy use will lead to irreversible and potentially catastrophic climate change," the IEA concluded in its annual World Energy Outlook report.
"The door to 2.0 C is closing," it said, referring to the 2.0 Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) cap on global warming widely accepted by scientists and governments as the ceiling for averting unmanageable climate damage.
Without further action, by 2017 the total CO2 emissions compatible with the 2.0 C goal will be "locked in" by power plants, factories and other carbon-emitting sources either built or planned, the IEA said.
Global infrastructure already accounts for more than 75 percent of that limit.
To meet energy needs while still averting climate catastrophe, governments must engineer a shift away from carbon-intensive fossil fuels, the agency said bluntly.
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The report outlines two scenarios for future energy consumption and emissions of greenhouse gases.
A "new policies" scenario incorporates existing government promises into a projection up to 2035.
A "450 scenario" lays out a timetable for curbing carbon emissions so that atmospheric concentration of CO2 stays under 450 parts per million (ppm), roughly equivalent to the 2.0 C target.
The current level is about 390 ppm.
Even taking into account current commitments, CO2 emitted over the next 25 years will amount to three-quarters of the total emitted since 1900, leading to a 3.5 C (6.3 F) average increase in temperature since that date.
Business-as-usual emissions would put the world "on an even more dangerous track toward an increase of 6.0 C (10.8 F)," the report says.
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NoooohhhhHHHHHHHHH!
Yeah sure. Lol.
Leftists need to stop driving cars, flying planes and heating their homes - NOW!
Note: Office of International Energy Agency (IEA)first of many to be made defunct in coming administration of newly elected Republican President.
And in 1959, we only had 30 years of oil left and were heading into a sever ice age.
Let me guess,buy lots and lots of carbon credits from Gore and friends-and everything will be fine.
They won’t allow us to build nucs. They fight wind projects. No solar (kills ants). They insist we blow up hydro dams.
We’re screwed.
Check the history of the NYT:
U.S. and Soviet Press Studies of a Colder Arctic; U.S. and Soviet Press Arctic Studies
July 18, 1970
By WALTER SULLIVAN
Page 1, 1398 words
The United States and the Soviet Union are mounting large-scale investigations to determine why the Arctic climate is becoming more frigid, why parts of the Arctic sea ice have recently become ominously thicker and whether the extent of that ice cover contributes to the onset of ice ages.
Scientist Fears Equable Climate Around World Could Be Ending
October 31, 1972
By BOYCE RENSBERGER
The current 12,000-year-old era of comfortable climates around the world may be coming to an end, closing another chapter in what a University of Miami scientist believes has been a history of frequent and relatively short-lived ice ages and warm ages...
December 29, 1974
By Alan Anderson Jr.
A number of climatologists, whose job it is to keep an eye on long-term weather changes, have lately been predicting deterioration of the benignclimate to which we have grown accustomed.
CLIMATE CHANGES CALLED OMINOUS; Scientists Warn Predictions Must Be Made Precise to Avoid Catastrophe
January 19, 1975
Changes in the earth’s climate are inevitable and mankind must learn to predict these variations to avoid potential catastrophe, a group of prominent scientists has concluded after a two-year study.
Scientists Ask Why World Climate Is Changing; Major Cooling May Be Ahead; Scientists Ponder Why World’s Climate Is Changing; a Major Cooling Widely Considered to Be Inevitable...
Experts Fear Great Peril If SST Fumes Cool Earth
December 21, 1975
A federally sponsored inquiry into the effects of possible climate changes caused by heavy supersonic traffic in the stratosphere has concluded that even a slight cooling could cost the world from $200 billion to 500 times that much in damage done to agriculture, public health and other effects.
International Team of Specialists Finds No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend in Northern Hemisphere
January 5, 1978
An international team of specialists has concluded from eight indexes of climate that there is no end in sight to the cooling trend of the last 30 years, at least in the Northern Hemisphere...
We absolutely need to do something about this!
I’m putting it on my 2019 calendar.
They need to stop breathing.
These clowns really need to get another act. This one isn’t even funny anymore. Ho hum.
DOOMAGE!!!!
Well that’s it...we better elect Gingrich so he and his sofa-buddy Pelosi can work on their solution to climate change.
We’re gonna need some warming as we are in fact cooling.
At the same time time, humans are having little impact on either.
These pimples on the ass of society simply are trying to use guilt to grow their power and that is a danger to mankind.
Let them take a couple of cities and let them implement their plan. Cut the energy input to what they say it should be.
They can turn it into a reality show watching the people suffer. It would be educational to say the least.
On that time scale, there are only three feasible solutions:
1. Asteroid 2005 YU55 hits the earth
2. A Carrington Event wipes out out all of earth’s electronic infrastructure
3. The Iranians unleash simultaneous EMP weapons above the US, eastern Europe, India and Europe.
We missed our chance on #1. There’s a non-zero chance of #2. And, unfortunately, the Iranians are only going to try to hit the US and Israel.
I guess we better hope for #2.
They are located in France, and don’t want their budgets cut with all the austerity coming in Europe.
OK, how about if none of this happens we go to their houses and beat them to death for causing alarm and disruption.
Horsefeathers.
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