Posted on 02/15/2018 6:37:21 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
A draft United Nations climate science report contains dire news about the warming of the planet, suggesting it will likely cross the key marker of 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, of temperature rise in the 2040s, and that this will be exceedingly difficult to avoid.
Temperatures could subsequently cool down if carbon dioxide is somehow removed from the air later in the century, the document notes. But that prospect is questionable at the massive scales that would be required, it observes.
The 31-page draft, a summary of a much-anticipated report on the 1.5 degrees Celsius target expected to be finalized in October, was published by the website ClimateHome on Tuesday.
The draft document states that there is a "very high risk" of the planet warming more than 1.5 degrees above the temperature seen in the mid- to late 19th century. Maintaining the planet's temperature entirely below that level throughout the present century, without even briefly exceeding it, is likely to be "already out of reach," it finds.
What's most striking is the radical nature and rapidity of the changes that would be required to somehow preserve a world below 1.5 degrees.
The document finds that the world has only 12 to 16 years worth of greenhouse gas emissions left, from the start of 2016, if it wants a better than even chance of holding warming below 1.5 degrees.
Two of those years have already elapsed, as of this writing. A third will have nearly elapsed by the time the draft report is finalized and released in October.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
That’s odd.... we’ve had entire years where the temps were 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than the previous year... and nothing exploded, fell apart, collapsed, or melted away. Every adult on earth has lived through “a hot year” and a “cold year”. Exactly how long does the 1.5 degree increase have to take hold for the destruction to come about?
And the fix to this would be for the US to give about $10 trillion dollars to the UN immediately.
Better idea. Let’s turn the United Nations buildings in New York into affordable housing for those who need it. Nothing useful happening there now.
Today’s high here is supposed to be more than 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than yesterday’s. I don’t know how we will survive.
Yep - so dire it had to be “leaked”.....these jokers need a good agent - maybe Seinfeld’s agent has some spare time...
Good! Can’t wait! Is there anyway we can speed it up!?
‘pizzed’ ?
pizza perhaps? 800 degree should shorten the baking time ...
We’re all gonna die.
You want to know what is really unsustainable..
Our massive debt.
The same debt the a-hole lefties, and the self serving RINOs that love them, doubled in 8 years.
That will destroy us loonnngggg before global warming will.
I will support global warming, actualky I will support anything they want, when our beloved representatives reduce our debt to less than 5 Trillion dollars.
That has got to be a piece of cake compared to “fixing” global warming,right?
Certainly easier than amnesty?
Death and taxes.
I think we all have a better odds of each winning a 200 million plus lottery in our lifetime before this happens. So I’m not gonna worry about it until that happens. Anyway I still have Yellowstone, and the San Andreas at the top of my list anything with U.N. in it goes to the circular file.
I’ll believe they are serious when they demand a ban on all carbonated beverages. Have you any idea how much CO2 is in a beer belch?
“woman wrote:
“Leaked”.
That’s funny right there! :)”
Like they haven’t been “predicting” that doomsday forever.
I’m not talking about the hoaxers. There are Hollywood stars, college and high school students, and others who believe the hoax. It is really sad
Fake news!
If you can't persuade trough Science, dazzle them with bullshit...
Global Warming on Free Republic here, here and here
“Leaked” you say.
Sounds like another case of leaking for political effect.
Thanks,...same ole Globalist crap!!!
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