Posted on 11/09/2017 11:12:04 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
When a damaging heat wave occurs, how much responsibility do the major greenhouse gas-emitting countries bear? It's a question scientists say they're getting closer to answering at a country-by-country level.
As international climate negotiators meet in Germany this week, a team of scientists has published a method for estimating how individual countries' shares of global greenhouse gas emissions over time contributed to the risk of specific extreme climate events, like heat waves, occurring in other countries.
The new techniques "make it possible to assign extreme events to human-induced climate change and historical emissions," and "allow losses and damage associated with such events to be assigned country-level responsibility," the scientists, from World Weather Attribution and the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research,>/b> wrote in a study describing their methods. The peer-reviewed article was published in the journal Nature Climate Change.
Addressing the imbalance is implicit in the Paris climate agreement.
The researchers said their method is particularly apt for heat waves, which have been strongly linked to overall human-caused warming.
U.S. emissions were found to have increased the risk of the heat wave by 34 percent, while China and India—which have lower historic emissions—increased the risk by 21 and 18 percent, respectively.
Negotiators have approached the subject of how to account for loss and damage from climate change gingerly because rifts between countries involved in the negotiations could disrupt the overall process.
(Excerpt) Read more at insideclimatenews.org ...
‘Who is guarding the gate at FR?’
I suggest you enroll in the nearest university, if you feel the need for a safe space...
How responsible is each country? The only sure way to know is to roll the bones, look at entrails, and have a qualified climate-witchdoctor see which country the climate-gods are most displeased with.
Well played sir!
Such gaul, such unmitigated ego to think the entire race of mankind, which is nothing more than a speck of sand on Miami Beach, could have any appreciable or lasting effect on the climate for this huge planet. What an embarrassment to say or even consider it.
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