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Activists have been pursuing this approach to tackling global warming without success for nearly 20 years, most recently at last December’s failed climate summit in Copenhagen.
Nonetheless, in the IPCC’s influential 2007 assessment of climate change, the panel’s Working Group II (charged with assessing the potential impact of global warming) chose to cite one, then-unpublished study that supposedly found that global warming had doubled damage costs over the past 35 years.
In fact, when this study was finally published, it stated categorically that there was “insufficient evidence” to link the increased losses to global warming.
Elsewhere in the 2007 assessment, Working Group II claimed that “up to 40% of the Amazonian forests” were at imminent risk of being destroyed by global warming.
The Green InquisitionCOPENHAGEN – When it comes to global warming, extreme scare stories abound.
This doesn’t mean that global warming is not true.
In June, Hansen proclaimed that people who spread “disinformation” about global warming – CEOs, politicians, in fact anyone who doesn’t follow Hansen’s narrow definition of the “truth” – should literally be tried for crimes against humanity.
We will waste hundreds of billions of dollars, worsen global warming, and dramatically increase starvation.
Chief among these challenges is the threat posed by global warming, with China having surpassed the US as the leading producer of carbon-dioxide emissions (though not in per capita terms).
Gone with the WindCOPENHAGEN – Efforts to stem global warming have nurtured a strong urge worldwide to deploy renewable energy.
And the benefits, in terms of tackling global warming, would be measly: a reduction of just 86 megatons of CO2 per year for two decades.
Using a standard climate model, by 2100, the UK’s huge outlay will have postponed global warming by just over ten days.
Climate change is another facet of globalization, because here, too, there is nothing that Germany can do by itself to halt global warming.
Ocean acidification and warming has been occurring at alarming rates, and are already having a serious impact on some of our most precious marine ecosystems – an impact that will only intensify.
For example, human-caused warming of the Indian Ocean probably played a role in the 2011 severe drought in the Horn of Africa, which triggered famine, conflict, and hunger, affecting millions of impoverished people.
When burned, they emit the carbon dioxide that causes global warming.
By 2070, we need a world economy that is nearly 100% carbon-free to prevent global warming from running dangerously out of control.
But if we are to sustain growth in air travel without aggravating global warming, we must quickly reduce aviation-related CO2 emissions, which are substantial and not covered by the Paris climate agreement that more than 190 countries agreed to last December.
Carbon taxes would help mitigate global warming while raising considerable revenues.
Developing countries have lagged behind in this process, but, with the common threat of global warming, there is now growing pressure to adopt conservation policies.
As representatives from 196 countries prepare to gather in Paris at the end of the year to craft an agreement to tackle global warming, it is becoming clear that we need a similar project.
George W. Bush, long a skeptic about global warming, and long committed to undermining multilateralism, remains America’s president.
These include, first, that solutions to global warming require the participation of all countries.
Third, the problem of global warming is so vast that every instrument must be employed.
With developing countries standing to lose even more than developed countries if nothing is done about global warming, many believe they can be cajoled, threatened, or induced to be part of a global agreement.
The Bali meeting’s participants should bear this in mind: global warming is too important to be held hostage to another attempt at squeezing the poor.
This, in turn, has encouraged greater reliance on highly polluting coal – the worst energy source, from the standpoint of global warming.
A month after the Copenhagen climate conference, it is clear that the world’s leaders were unable to translate rhetoric about global warming into action.
While the world dawdles, greenhouse gases are building up in the atmosphere, and the likelihood that the world will meet even the agreed-upon target of limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius is diminishing.
But does this have anything to do with global warming, and are human emissions to blame?
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