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 worlds 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 ...
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Expert = former spert.
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The weather forecast for the next day is often wrong in my area, but libtards are certain that they know what will happen in 3 years or 100 years.
Interesting article...:^) /S
Two quick points.
1. They seem to mix up Climate Change and Global Warming and use both terms - Hey, which one is it?
2. They are happy that CO2 emmisions are level over the last three years, but we are also told - omitted from the article of course, that the CO2 in the atmosphere is steadily rising. So why the fuss over actual CO2 levels?
Edward Goldsmith, 1991, (5000 Days to Save the Planet): By 2000, British and American oil will have diminished to a trickle .Ozone depletion and global warming threaten food shortages, but the wealthy North will enjoy a temporary reprieve by buying up the produce of the South. Unrest among the hungry and the ensuing political instability, will be contained by the Norths greater military might. A bleak future indeed, but an inevitable one unless we change the way we live At present rates of exploitation there may be no rainforest left in 10 years. If measures are not taken immediately, the greenhouse effect may be unstoppable in 12 to 15 years.
Noticed during previews to a movie we watched that Algore has put out yet another ‘ALL IS LOST!!’ pile of bunk.
Just in top for the next presidential election.
I wonder how much money Edward made titillating gullible leftists with his big scare story book.
Johan Wankerström of the Stockholm Resilience Centre
This is like listening to bad movie villains.
Lordy. I think your right. We have much bigger things to worry about than Bore’s hysterical minions.
Mark the date. In three years we can refuse to listen to any more climate propaganda on the grounds that it’s too late to do anything about it.
How many thousands of times do you think you have posted this sad little list?
18 examples of the spectacularly wrong predictions made around 1970 when the green holy day (aka Earth Day) started:
1. Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.
2. We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation, wrote Washington University biologist Barry Commoner in the Earth Day issue of the scholarly journal Environment.
3. The day after the first Earth Day, the New York Times editorial page warned, Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.
4. Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make, Paul Ehrlich confidently declared in the April 1970 Mademoiselle. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.
5. Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born, wrote Paul Ehrlich in a 1969 essay titled Eco-Catastrophe! By [1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.
6. Ehrlich sketched out his most alarmist scenario for the 1970 Earth Day issue of The Progressive, assuring readers that between 1980 and 1989, some 4 billion people, including 65 million Americans, would perish in the Great Die-Off.
7. It is already too late to avoid mass starvation, declared Denis Hayes, the chief organizer for Earth Day, in the Spring 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness.
8. Peter Gunter, a North Texas State University professor, wrote in 1970, Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions .By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.
9. In January 1970, Life reported, Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half .
10. Ecologist Kenneth Watt told Time that, At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, its only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.
11. Barry Commoner predicted that decaying organic pollutants would use up all of the oxygen in Americas rivers, causing freshwater fish to suffocate.
12. Paul Ehrlich chimed in, predicting in his 1970 that air pollution is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone. Ehrlich sketched a scenario in which 200,000 Americans would die in 1973 during smog disasters in New York and Los Angeles.
13. Paul Ehrlich warned in the May 1970 issue of Audubon that DDT and other chlorinated hydrocarbons may have substantially reduced the life expectancy of people born since 1945. Ehrlich warned that Americans born since 1946 now had a life expectancy of only 49 years, and he predicted that if current patterns continued this expectancy would reach 42 years by 1980, when it might level out.
14. Ecologist Kenneth Watt declared, By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate that there wont be any more crude oil. Youll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill er up, buddy, and hell say, `I am very sorry, there isnt any.'
15. Harrison Brown, a scientist at the National Academy of Sciences, published a chart in Scientific American that looked at metal reserves and estimated the humanity would totally run out of copper shortly after 2000. Lead, zinc, tin, gold, and silver would be gone before 1990.
16. Sen. Gaylord Nelson wrote in Look that, Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.
17. In 1975, Paul Ehrlich predicted that since more than nine-tenths of the original tropical rainforests will be removed in most areas within the next 30 years or so, it is expected that half of the organisms in these areas will vanish with it.
18. Kenneth Watt warned about a pending Ice Age in a speech. The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years, he declared. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.
TigersEye, please tell the truth to power, as they say...
“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.”
Not to mention trillions of taxpayer dollars.
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Claim That Sea Level Is Rising Is a Total Fraud
Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner
Sea levels began to rise 18k years ago at the end of the last glacial period. They have risen about 135 meters since then which is an average of 7.5 millimeters per year. That is an average of 750 mm per century (29.5 inches) which is far more than the average over the last century.
From 1880 to 2000 sea level rose about 20 cm or just under 8 inches. Far less than the nearly 30 inches per century average over the last 18,000 years.
We’re all gonna die! Someday.
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