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The 300 million faithful of the Eastern churches led by the Ecumenical Patriarch are in lands facing extreme dangers from global warming: intense heat waves, rising sea levels, and increasingly severe droughts.
Participants from all over the world, including 38 heads of state and government, came together to create a plan for implementing the 2015 Paris climate agreement, which aims to limit global
warming
to well below two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
Climate change is equated with “global warming,” but much more than
warming
is involved.
Global leaders seemed to recognize this when they agreed five years ago to limit global
warming
during this century to 2º Celsius above pre-industrial levels – the threshold beyond which we risk triggering more devastating consequences of climate change.
To take advantage of this crucial hedge against a
warming
planet, more trees must remain standing.
Certainly, America’s actions in Iraq, contribution to global warming, and uneven commitment to multilateral problem-solving leave a much room for criticism of US behavior both.
There is good scientific reason to believe that many tropical regions will experience vastly more damage from global
warming
than will temperate-zone countries like the US.
For example, the effects of global
warming
on Africa and India could be very severe, even though their economies have contributed very little to the overall problem (since Africa and India use so little energy per person, they also contribute very little to the build up of atmospheric carbon dioxide).
AIDS, hunger, armed conflict, and global
warming
compete for attention alongside government failure, malaria, and the latest natural disaster.
For example, the recent breakup of a massive glacier in the Antarctic supposedly proves the mounting effects of global
warming.
But we don’t hear that the area was ice-free, possibly just some 400 years ago, without the help of global
warming.
And, needless to say, the greater the warming, the more severe these effects will be.
In his view, the costs of dealing with runaway global
warming
would far exceed the expense of addressing it early.
As such, his approach is also similar to that of the IPCC and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), both of which have concluded that global
warming
above a certain level will have truly disastrous effects.
The impulse to put things off for a later day is understandable, given current economic and political troubles; but when it comes to public pensions, procrastination comes at a high cost – even more so than in the case of global
warming.
Both candidates have placed great importance on global
warming.
Both politicians are keen to tap into voters’ concerns about global
warming.
McCain launched a television commercial declaring that he had “stood up to President George Bush” on global
warming.
If elected, Obama plans to count on former vice president and passionate campaigner Al Gore to help “lead the fight” against
warming.
Recently, the Copenhagen Consensus project gathered eight of the world’s top economists – including five Nobel laureates – to examine research on the best ways to tackle 10 global challenges: air pollution, conflict, disease, global warming, hunger and malnutrition, lack of education, gender inequity, lack of water and sanitation, terrorism, and trade barriers.
Even accounting for the key environmental damage from warming, we would lose money, with avoided damages of just $685 billion for our $800 billion investment.
The interdependencies in the global economy (in areas as diverse as financial markets, product safety, infectious diseases, natural resource dependency, and global warming) have outrun our collective capacity to manage them and coordinate policy responses.
A Cool Calculus of Global WarmingThe British government recently issued the most comprehensive study to date of the economic costs and risks of global warming, and of measures that might reduce greenhouse gas emissions, in the hope of averting some of the direst consequences.
Written under the leadership of Sir Nicholas Stern of the London School of Economics, who succeeded me as Chief Economist of the World Bank, the report makes clear that the question is no longer whether we can afford to do anything about global warming, but whether we can afford not to.
The reported costs of global
warming
are higher than in earlier studies because it takes into account the mounting evidence that the process of global
warming
is highly complex and non-linear, with a non-negligible chance that it may proceed much faster than had previously been thought and that the extent of
warming
may be much greater than had previously been thought.
When I served in 1995 on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the scientific group that periodically assesses the science of global warming, there was overwhelming evidence that the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere had increased markedly since the beginning of the industrial revolution, that human activity had contributed significantly to those increases, and that they would have profound effects on climate and sea levels.
Still, some suggest that because we are not certain about how bad global
warming
will be, we should do little or nothing.
Global
warming
is one of those rare instances where the scientific community is more fearful of what may be happening than the population at large.
Exxon has reportedly been funding so-called think tanks to undermine confidence in the science of global warming, just as the tobacco industry funded “research” to question the validity of statistical findings showing the link between smoking and cancer.
Global
warming
is a risk that we simply cannot afford to ignore anymore.
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