Posted on 06/28/2017 11:57:50 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Avoiding dangerous levels of climate change is still just about possible, but will require unprecedented effort and coordination from governments, businesses, citizens and scientists in the next three years, a group of prominent experts has warned.
Scientists have been warning that time is fast running out to stave off the worst effects of warming, and some milestones may have slipped out of reach. In the Paris agreement, governments pledged an “aspirational” goal of holding warming to no more than 1.5C, a level which it is hoped will spare most of the world’s lowest-lying islands from inundation.
While the greenhouse gases poured into the atmosphere over the last two centuries have only gradually taken effect, future changes are likely to be faster, scientists fear. Johan Wankerström of the Stockholm Resilience Centre said: “We have been blessed by a remarkably resilient planet over the past 100 years, able to absorb most of our climate abuse. Now we have reached the end of this era, and need to bend the global curve of emissions immediately, to avoid unmanageable outcomes for our modern world.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Are these the same geniuses who, over a decade ago, exclaimed that we only have ten years before we are all doomed?
experts!
OH NOES!
Yeah, my deja vu meter is pegged, again, again.
These guys couldn’t agree on which side of the toilet paper to use in 3 years, and they think that ANYTHING is going to happen globally in that time to ‘save the planet’?
I think not...
Nature should not publish that non-science.
3 years huh?
We better get started on the giant space vacuum cleaner then.
[forehead slap!]
Hahahahaha, the predictions of the end of the world are as old as mankind. No, however, the same Chicken Little mentality is using global warming, erm climate change, as the reason
Time is fast running out to stave off the worst effects of unicorn over-breeding too. Send a billion dollars and we’ll see what can be done... two billion would be better...
Is it only me or does anybody else think Odo from Deep Space Nine looks like Goebbels
I’m 1990 it was 10 years. Etc.
Just in time for the next election.
How do they that its not 3 years 4 months 2 days 4 hours and 32 seconds?
But we are already dead according to Algore.
I would have SO MUCH MORE RESPECT for these “experts” if they promise to commit suicide on live TV if their predictions of doom do not come true.
Wow, just enough time to elect Hillary to Congress, promote to speaker, impeach Trump and make up something about Pence, so that her thighness can save the world.
I thought, according to Al Gore, that Manhattan was supposed to be under water by now.
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