Posted on 02/15/2018 6:37:21 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
A draft United Nations climate science report contains dire news about the warming of the planet, suggesting it will likely cross the key marker of 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, of temperature rise in the 2040s, and that this will be exceedingly difficult to avoid.
Temperatures could subsequently cool down if carbon dioxide is somehow removed from the air later in the century, the document notes. But that prospect is questionable at the massive scales that would be required, it observes.
The 31-page draft, a summary of a much-anticipated report on the 1.5 degrees Celsius target expected to be finalized in October, was published by the website ClimateHome on Tuesday.
The draft document states that there is a "very high risk" of the planet warming more than 1.5 degrees above the temperature seen in the mid- to late 19th century. Maintaining the planet's temperature entirely below that level throughout the present century, without even briefly exceeding it, is likely to be "already out of reach," it finds.
What's most striking is the radical nature and rapidity of the changes that would be required to somehow preserve a world below 1.5 degrees.
The document finds that the world has only 12 to 16 years worth of greenhouse gas emissions left, from the start of 2016, if it wants a better than even chance of holding warming below 1.5 degrees.
Two of those years have already elapsed, as of this writing. A third will have nearly elapsed by the time the draft report is finalized and released in October.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Well, hell. I guess we’re all gonna die.
“Leaked”.
That’s funny right there! :)
Fake news!
I guess ‘leaked’ lends it more credibility rather than just ‘released’ or ‘issued’.
Venus-like 800 degree surface temperatures are right around the corner ... something must be done soon or everything we know will melt!
Move the UN to Hati.
> it will likely cross the key marker of 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, of temperature rise in the 2040s <
Any proper scientific measurement - or proper scientific calculation - must include a degree of uncertainly, a plus or minus figure.
My best guess is that those folks did not make any proper scientific measurements in the first place. And on the off chance they did, I’ll bet the degree of uncertainly was more than 1.5 degrees Celsius.
We’ve got to stop this!!!! Where do I send my check???
This report is both good and bad to me. So they say the temperature might increase a few degrees.
That means in the desert the temperature will go from 120 to 122 degrees. That sounds devastating.
But here in Minnesota where it was 15 below last week then it would be only 13 below. Groovy.
That settles it for me, we need an Emergency Declaration from the President and Congress to preserve the United Nations as long as possible while the Planet burns up, by Moving their headquarters to Antarctica.
Well. I want to know where are all the TREE HUGGERS? No CO2. no plant life so we die of starvation anyhow!!!!!
Precisely
2049, no doubt...far enough out that they'll be gone and their dire predictions/lies will be forgotten. But now they'll get more grant money to "study" the "problem".
There is a rising tide form the UN but it's not the oceans rising.
I don’t get it.
How can it be so hot with so many fans? (wind turbines)
They figured out that projecting climate 100 years from now isn't scary enough, so they are shortening the horizon of destruction.
It sounds as though the maggots at the UN have decided that if they “leak” their goofy “reports”, maybe someone one will pay attention to them. “Leaked” documents get a lot of press.
I honestly and sincerely believe it is described as “leaked” to give it credibility.
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