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Date Posted: 21:30:27 03/03/07 Sat In reply to: Oropan 's message, "I figured they would start hedging on the goal" on 15:22:04 03/02/07 Fri It is almost certain that there will be another 2 degrees of global warming, most likely during the next 40 years. The reason we can kill the american gulf coast good bye is because the hurricane season of 2005 was powered by atlantic waters that were 2 - 4 degrees above historic temps. Most recent years have seen these waters 1 - 2 degrees above historic levels, so another 2 degrees will make the atlantic waters as warm as the record hurricane season of 2005 every year, there will be many more katrinas, ritas, dennis and wilmas. All the gulf coast states are red-republican, it will be america's gain! >INTERVIEW-EU likely to miss global warming goal-UN >expert >02 Mar 2007 15:05:30 GMT >Source: Reuters > > By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent > >OSLO, March 2 (Reuters) - The European Union is >unlikely to meet the goal of a maximum 2 degree >Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) rise in temperatures which it >views as a threshold for dangerous climate change, a >leading U.N. climate official said on Friday. > >"It clearly seems very, very difficult to limit it to >below 2 degrees," Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the >Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), told >Reuters in a telephone interview. > >"But who knows? It's not beyond the capabilities of >the human race to come up with actions," he said. > >The EU, outsiders such as Norway and many >environmentalists see a 2C rise in temperatures over >pre-industrial times as a trigger for dangerous >changes such as rising sea levels, droughts, heat >waves and floods. > >An IPCC report last month, based on the work of 2,500 >climate scientists, blamed human activities more >clearly than ever for global warming. It said >greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels were mainly >responsible. > >It projected a "best estimate" that temperatures would >rise by between 1.8C and 4.0C (3.2F and 7.8F) this >century alone. > >Pachauri said temperatures had already risen by 0.74C >(1.3F) since the Industrial Revolution in the 18th >century and would keep rising by 0.1C (0.2F) per >decade for coming decades even if emissions were kept >at current levels. > >An EU Commission proposal on Jan. 10, entitled >"Limiting Global Climate Change to 2C", called for a >20-percent cut in EU emissions by 2020 or a 30-percent >cut if other industrialised countries were willing to >go further. > >ALMOST OUT OF REACH > >Former World Bank chief economist Nicholas Stern, who >issued a report last year concluding that it was far >cheaper to act to combat climate change rather than >suffer the consequences, said this week that the 2C >goal was "almost out of reach". > >Pachauri, an Indian, said he would like the world to >agree what dangerous climate change meant.A 1992 U.N. >Climate Convention set an overriding goal of averting >dangerous human interference with the climate system >but gave no definition. > >"The question is 'dangerous for whom?'," Pachauri said. > >"If you look at the most vulnerable regions of the >world and ask them what dangerous is, they will say >they have reached that threshold already -- the small >island states, regions severely affected by droughts >and floods," he said. > >He quoted independence leader Mahatma Gandhi as >saying: "You must always look at the effect of our >actions on the most dispossessed, the last man, the >one who is the least fortunate." > >By that yardstick, he said, dangerous had already been >reached. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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