Posted on 07/31/2017 10:18:19 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
In recent years, it has become increasingly common to frame the climate change problem as a kind of countdown — each year we emit more carbon dioxide, narrowing the window for fixing the problem, but not quite closing it.
This outlook has allowed for climate optimism, in which big changes, someday soon, will make the difference. Christiana Figureres, the former head of the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change, recently joined with climate scientists and policy wonks to state there are 3 years left to get emissions moving sharply downward.
Yet a battery of recent studies call into question even that limited optimism. Last week, a group of climate researchers published research suggesting the climate has been warming for longer than we thought due to human influences.
The logic is clear: If the Earth has already warmed more than we thought due to human activities, then there’s even less remaining carbon dioxide that we can emit and still avoid 2 degrees of warming.
“There is a lot of uncertainty about the future, our analysis does reflect that, but it also does reflect that the more optimistic scenarios that have been used in targets seem quite unlikely to occur,” said statistician Adrian Wankery of the University of Washington, Seattle.
The upshot of all the latest research is that while limiting warming to 2 degrees is seeming unlikely. And who knows whether in thirty years, negative emissions may appear much more feasible than they do now, providing the option of cooling the planet back down again at some point.
In sum, climate pessimism has indeed had a strong run lately — but you have to keep in context. It’s pessimism that we’ll hit our current goals. It’s not fatalism, or the idea that we’ll accomplish nothing, or that present momentum doesn’t matter.
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The Bible confirms there is a 100% chance God is going to destroy the earth in it’s present form and remake into the perfect kingdom for Him and His people.
There is nothing no liberal can do to stop Him either.
1. This is false precision, like stating that the distance between NYC and LA is 2973 miles, 483 yards, 27 and 3/4 inches. Weather phenomena are too complex to measure, let alone predict, with such precision.
Ironically, a lot of people who promote this propaganda will also say they believe in the butterfly effect, pursuant to which supposedly the air currents stirred by the flap of a butterfly's wings over the Amazon can cause a hurricane in the northern hemisphere months later.
2. If there really are only three years left, then climate disaster is a done deal. Enormous reductions in "greenhouse gas" emissions would have to start today, and as a practical matter are simply not going to take place. We may as well imitate Slim Pickens in his last scene in Dr. Strangelove.
3. Climate alarmists have squandered their credibility with absurd predictions over the past 20 years.
4. Anthropogenic global warming is a fraud and a hoax. It's all about confiscation and redistribution of the fruits of those who labor.
I thought the “time to act and steal everybody’s income” had come and gone?
What is this extended area of action they speak of?
You need more time to rob from me and save your pathetic excuse of life?
Nah. It’s over. Go harp on global cooling or revive the rain forest bullshit again.
I think that the real scientists that are using their brains know that CO2 is not the problem. Teaching young minds something different nowadays won’t solve the supposed “problem”,it will just enrich somebody’s retirement plans.
Of course that was meant for the Post and Chris Moonbeam.
I used to maintain one of those in AZ.
Specifications are VERY exacting.
Never tell me the odds.
Waitaminut! They said only a 10% chance in the other thread!
Did we ever hear the last Vegas odds before the election?
If we only have a 5% chance to avoid dangerous global warming, I guess I can enjoy the rest of my life...I’m going to buy a 250 foot yacht at $500 a month for the next 40 years...I might as well warm the globe, if I’m going to die...
And a 99% chance of torrential bull chit with scattered horse puckey!
Plant some plants. They can’t survive without CO2. They love it. Plus they’re green. No really, plant are green, no pun intended.
Bonus: CO2 is heavier than air. Otherwise the plants would starve. Ergo, there is no such thing as “excess” CO2.
“Global Warming - Climate Change” world biggest hoax and scam.
Just like Obama causing Global Flooding by pissing in the ocean.
That much can humans contribute.
Elaborate scam to screw off taxpayers off their money!
Earth climate and changes are dependent on Sun’s and Sunspots activity supplying 99.99% of energy. Humans can do schit about it.
Volcano eruptions can produce much more distractions to climate than all humans and SUVs farting together.
CO2 is not poison, it is “food” for plants, which in turn produce Oxygen, that we need to breathe.
STOP the scam, jail all the scammers!!!
God bless and protect Mr. Trump!
MAGA!!!!
OPMG, the Sky is Falling! AGAIN
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