Posted on 09/08/2021 11:39:11 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Researchers who estimate how much of the world’s coal, oil and natural gas reserves should be left unburned to slow the increase in climate-changing gases in the atmosphere say even more of these fossil fuels should be left in the ground.
The researchers, from University College London, say earlier estimates, published in 2015, had to be updated.
They now calculate that nearly 60% of the world’s oil and gas reserves and 90% of the coal reserves need to stay in the ground by 2050 to meet climate goals of the Paris Climate Agreement.
Those limits would give the world a 50-50 chance of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) compared to pre-industrial times, according to their study Wednesday in the journal Nature.
“We believe on new paper adds further weight to recent research that indicates the global oil and fossil methane gas production needs to peak now,” Dan Welsby, lead author and an energy and environment researcher at the University College London, told a news conference Tuesday. “We found that global production needs decline at an average annual rate of around 3 percent (through) 2050.”
It’s been long known that emissions from burning fuels for electricity, transportation and other uses are the chief driver of climate change, pulling long-buried carbon in fossil fuels out of the ground and depositing that carbon into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide. Scientists say such heat-trapping gases are causing sea-level rise and extreme weather events around the world.
The study comes less than a month after the International Panel on Climate Change reported that the world will likely cross the 1.5-degree-Celsius warming threshold in the 2030s under five scenarios of emissions reduction.
While acknowledging the IPCC report’s grim outlook, Welsby said he wanted to model a scenario that would limit the worst impacts of climate change.
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Wow! They must really want us to go back to the Little Ice Age when we all fought more wars over crop land than we ever though about fighting for oil.
The control freaks lust for more control.
What a horribly written article.
I wonder how much these “researchers” get paid? And by whom?
The same country that told the world everyone would die from Covid?
They’re gonna take away gas vehicles or starve them
If gas prices keep rising, I’ll be burning much more wood.
Going back to the caves and throwing feces at each other is what your typical lefty calls “progress”.
The left’s plan is so obvious. They want energy dependence as a way to weaken the US. They hate the US and everything it stands for. They want us dependent on foreign powers. They want endless wars in the middle east. No wonder they hated Trump.
> I wonder how much these “researchers” get paid? And by whom? <
I’m guessing it’s more like group-think. No one wants to buck the system, and be publicly shamed. So it’s easier to just go with the flow.
“Global Warming? Uh, it’s like a problem. And this data? Well, if you hold it sideways it implies that possibly the Earth’s temperature might rise a degree or two.”
A study calls for it and the Asspress agrees. Any study saying the opposite would never be publicized by these demonic losers.
Global Warming PING!
Oh good - another “study,” and, lo, we need globaloids in charge of all production and travel.
Where do I sign.
If they get what, we won’t have cars and we won’t be flying anyway either....
The whole thing is a hoax. If these guys were doctors they would be running around telling healthy people that they need to come in once a month for leech tratments.
https://realclimatescience.com/
There will be a steady and continuous drumbeat of this rubbish until the crescendo of COP26 in November. It is already getting tiresome, but they have just begun to rev their engines.
Can’t we start by switching off climate researchers power?
“If they get what, we won’t have cars and we won’t be flying anyway either....”
I’m thinking we’ve seen the end of international tourist travel, it will never go back to 2019 levels. Now, if the cut down on commercial flights under an hour (as talked about), that will put a real hurt on most domestic carriers.
And frankly, I’m not paying for a ticket to wear a mask for a few hours, unless I absolutely have to.
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