Earth has 11 years to cut emissions to avoid dire climate scenarios, a report says

NPR ^ | 4/11/21 | Scott Neuman

[Eleutheria5]

The current rate of greenhouse gas pollution is so high that Earth has about 11 years to rein in emissions if countries want to avoid the worst damage from climate change in the future, a new study concludes.

Despite dipping in 2020 because of the global pandemic, greenhouse gas emissions are on track to return to pre-pandemic levels, according to the annual Global Carbon Budget report.

The findings, currently under review before publication, underscore that the urgency of cutting emissions is even greater than previously thought if the world is to avoid a rise in average global temperatures that is greater than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels. That was the goal set by the 2015 Paris climate agreement and pursued by countries currently gathered for a major United Nations climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland.

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[Old Coach1]

What idiots keep believing these folks?

[KarlInOhio]

The only way my family survived the Great Starvation of the 1980s was by eating remaindered copies of Ehrlich's The Population Bomb.

Right now the race seems to be between those who are using 1984 as an instruction manual, those using Brave New World (with forced drugging and birth control) and those using Fahrenheit 451.

[AppyPappy]

They probably ran this same article 11 years ago

[GingisK]

It seems that Lucy moved the goal, or the ball, once again.

[Eleutheria5]

If there were Internet back then, Marthus would have said the same. Dr. Zacchary Smith on Spaceship Earth...WE'RE DOOMED! OH, DEAR DEAR ME!

[Eleutheria5]

Hurry, Charlie Brown! This time you’ll kick it!

[Cboldt]

Hey, earth, knock off the volcanoes, willya?

[Vision]

Evil, full of crap, and coveting others money is a bad way to go through life.

[Eleutheria5]

I think you have to throw some virgins in one.

[kosciusko51]

The ancients wrote their history on stone tablets; we have written ours on the equivalent of an etch-a-sketch.

[antidemoncrat]

Before I agree with this, I want to know if AOC has blessed this report. /s

[cgbg]

Follow the magic.

The circle of wizards stared into their crystal balls again....

[existentially_kuffer]

Gore declared that unless we took “drastic measures” to reduce greenhouse gasses, the world would reach a “point of no return” in a mere ten years. He called it a “true planetary emergency.”

LOL

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

We don’t need to worry about 11 years.
Apophis (Wormwood?) will be here sooner, on April 13, 2029.

[Zathras]

Ozone Hole
Acid Rain
Spotted Owl
All weaponized causes which resulted in near zero changes and then magically vanished from talking heads.

I remember when the MSM reported an actual photo of the Ozone Hole from space.
It was an Aurora Borealis seen from space.
No one ever questioned it.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

11???

I was promised we had less than & years left.

Better keep a closer eye on the retirement funds! I’ve got 3 more years to last.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Now I am going to have to go into my bookmarks and bring up all the Coming Ice Age links I have to see how many give me a “404. Page not found.”

[RinaseaofDs]

11 more years? It’s like the old Bennie Youngman joke:

“Doctor told his patient, ‘You only have six more months to live.’ Patient said he couldn’t pay him. Doctor gave him six more months.”

[beethovenfan]

We’ve had only 11 years for the last 30 years.

[EastTexasTraveler]

Freedom is destroying the planet! We must have communism now or we all die!

Yawn.