Such amazing dodgynomic, creative accounting to meet Paris emission reduction pledge, their own pledge, and they insist they deserve our trust
The Age
If current projections cause global warming of 4degC, it’s likely to accelerate, out of control, for further 8degC
https://mailchi.mp/climatenewsnetwork/carbon-rise-could-cause-cloud-tipping-point?e=81a8983ef7
We face a stark choice [between] radical, disruptive changes to our physical world or radical, disruptive changes to our political and economic systems. Rate of absorption of carbon dioxide may, or may not continue. Sinks like Amazon may flip to sources. And none of the models account for tipping points like loss of glaciers and methane from previously permafrost.
The Swedish schoolgirl asks world leaders to lead but, if they ever respond, it could easily be too late to stop runaway warming.
How about organising this same legal status for Westernport, Murray River, Great Barrier Reef, more to it than meets the eye?
“Nations that ‘[let] the free market decide’ what they should do for a living decline to the bottom of the economic food chain.”
She’ll be right, eh?!? Who’s afraid of the big bad energy wolf?
…in the case of the environment, the opponent is not the Chamber of Commerce. The opponent is physics, and physics doesn’t negotiate.
“There is simply not enough time to wait for us to grow up and become the ones in charge,” she said, citing the fall in greenhouse gas emissions that was needed by 2020. The EU wants to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% by 2030, compared with 1990 levels.
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