Posted on 04/13/2015 2:57:51 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Dear EarthTalk: What is the best way to measure how close we are to the dreaded "point of no return" with climate change? In other words, when do we think we will have gone too far? — David Johnston, via EarthTalk.org
While we may not yet have reached the “point of no return” - when no amount of cutbacks on greenhouse gas emissions will save us from potentially catastrophic global warming - climate scientists warn we may be getting awfully close. Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution a century ago, the average global temperature has risen some 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Another 0.4 degree Fahrenheit rise in temperature could set in motion unprecedented changes in global climate and a significant increase in the severity of natural disasters—and as such could represent the dreaded point of no return.
Environmental leaders point out that this doesn’t give us much time to turn the tide. Greenpeace, a leading environmental advocacy group, says we have until around 2020 to significantly cut back on greenhouse gas output around the world. “Within this time period, we will have to radically change our approach to energy production and consumption.”
“Without additional mitigation, and even with adaptation, warming by the end of the 21st century will lead to high to very high risk of severe, widespread and irreversible impacts globally,” reports the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an international group of leading climate experts convened by the United Nations to review and assess the most recent scientific, technical and socio-economic information on global warming. Indeed, there’s no time like the present to start changing our ways.
(Excerpt) Read more at scientificamerican.com ...
Yes, about 100 million years ago
When true climate believers start offing themselves en masse because they can’t bear the guilt of knowing that they are killing the planet anymore, then I will believe it is serious.
Yeah, lets go with that. So now can we please stop talking about it and just live our lives?
That mag now has the credability of NBC, CNN, and TIME.
What a joke.
These followers a Very Scary
Tell Greenpeas to park their boat and quit burning fuel.
Yes, we have reached the “point of no return”, so you can shut up...maybe even beat the odds by committing mass suicide.
The rest of us will just have to try to tough it out.
Yes.
So shut up about it, already.
“What is the best way to measure how close we are to the dreaded “point of no return” with climate change?”
When there is no more money to extort from productive society.
Mommy, I'm scared! Temperatures have gone up since the end of the Little Ice Age. I think we're all going to die.
Always moving the goalpost. Paul Erlich said we were doomed by 1980 unless humanity changed its ways. Then 1990. Then Al Gore said 2000 was doomsday. Then a variety of doomsayers were quoted in the press as saying each year between then and now was earth’s final chance. Now it’s moved back to 2020 with the devastating effects only to arrive when toddlers today are very old. And yet billions are spent today to forestall the unlikely.
OMG,we’re all gonna die.
Maybe a few can survive if they journey to another planet. Must be registered to vote D.
Yes. I'm sick to death of hearing about it.
At least ‘religious’ End Of The World fanatics don’t demand tax support.
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
OMG! We must have passed the point of no return on Y2K as well by now!
Yup. When the enviro-liars noticed the temps weren't going up like they wanted, they changed the temperature monitoring stations, placing them near heat-vents of buildings and in hot parking lots. So they're comparing hotter results against earlier monitoring stations that were in normal locations. Then there are the fraudulent captures of data where they toss out the low numbers and inflate the higher numbers, all for the sake of getting more government grants. It's all a con game.
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