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Ipcc Report
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued its sixth report.
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Without large and rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions across the world, the 1.5c target will be breached.. extreme weather, more flooding, more wildfires and eventually rising sea levels…
What can be done to stop catastrophic climate change? We need to be at net zero by 2050 - quite a big ask unfortunately…
Summed up here…
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Full report here…
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Without large and rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions across the world, the 1.5c target will be breached.. extreme weather, more flooding, more wildfires and eventually rising sea levels…
What can be done to stop catastrophic climate change? We need to be at net zero by 2050 - quite a big ask unfortunately…
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The UK could cut its emissions to zero tomorrow and it would make not the slightest difference to the climate. In fact, all of man's emissions could be cut similarly and it would make very little difference.
There is not a hope in hell of the likes of China and India of doing much to cut their outputs. China has in train coal-fired power plants of 250Gw. This increase (the increase, not the resulting total) exceeds the entire coal fired output of the USA and is about seven times the UK's entire generating capacity.
Meanwhile we have politicians and sportspeople jetting all over the world. The "president" of the COP26 jamboree due to take place in Glasgow has, alone, racked up over 200,000 air miles in the last six months so that he could glad rag and shake hands with the world's great and good. They in turn will, together with their lackeys, be jetting into Scotland in their droves, telling us all to turn our lights off, buy a battery car and drill a hole in the ground to get a bit of heat.
The recent wildfires are manna from heaven for the Climate zealots. However, nobody has explained how a bit of warm weather sets fire to trees. When Mr Sharma persuades all his mates to meet him on Zoom (the same as everybody else has done for the last eighteen months) I'll have a think about ditching my petrol car. Meanwhile I'll follow his example and jet off for "essential" R&R whenever I can.
There is not a hope in hell of the likes of China and India of doing much to cut their outputs. China has in train coal-fired power plants of 250Gw. This increase (the increase, not the resulting total) exceeds the entire coal fired output of the USA and is about seven times the UK's entire generating capacity.
Meanwhile we have politicians and sportspeople jetting all over the world. The "president" of the COP26 jamboree due to take place in Glasgow has, alone, racked up over 200,000 air miles in the last six months so that he could glad rag and shake hands with the world's great and good. They in turn will, together with their lackeys, be jetting into Scotland in their droves, telling us all to turn our lights off, buy a battery car and drill a hole in the ground to get a bit of heat.
The recent wildfires are manna from heaven for the Climate zealots. However, nobody has explained how a bit of warm weather sets fire to trees. When Mr Sharma persuades all his mates to meet him on Zoom (the same as everybody else has done for the last eighteen months) I'll have a think about ditching my petrol car. Meanwhile I'll follow his example and jet off for "essential" R&R whenever I can.
The Worlds problem is over population and that can only get worse.
//What can be done to stop catastrophic climate change?//
Nothing because it wont happen. Its based on modelling, and pretty poor modelling at that, just like the oh so accurate covid models.
The Worlds climate changes, you wont change that no matter how much you bleat.
What we should be doing though is reducing pollution. That is verifiable and is proven beyond doubt to cause illness to humans and wildlife.
//What can be done to stop catastrophic climate change?//
Nothing because it wont happen. Its based on modelling, and pretty poor modelling at that, just like the oh so accurate covid models.
The Worlds climate changes, you wont change that no matter how much you bleat.
What we should be doing though is reducing pollution. That is verifiable and is proven beyond doubt to cause illness to humans and wildlife.
//What can be done to stop catastrophic climate change?//
Nothing because it wont happen. Its based on modelling, and pretty poor modelling at that, just like the oh so accurate covid models.//
Some wouldnt believe it if all the scientists in the world said the same thing- and like with covid the vast majority do now agree on climate change. But some know better - or think they do
Nothing because it wont happen. Its based on modelling, and pretty poor modelling at that, just like the oh so accurate covid models.//
Some wouldnt believe it if all the scientists in the world said the same thing- and like with covid the vast majority do now agree on climate change. But some know better - or think they do
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The earth has always warmed up and cooled down, why would anyone imagine it is going to stop now?
Like douglas at 12:00, I remember the doom and gloom headlines of an impending 'ice Age' but it never happened.
The simple fact is, to make any of the changes that scientists are insisting are necessary, it is going to take wholesale changes to lifestyles right across the civilised world, and frankly, the civilsed world likes things as they are, and shows not one iota of a thought about changing things - predicitions of doom or not.
Like douglas at 12:00, I remember the doom and gloom headlines of an impending 'ice Age' but it never happened.
The simple fact is, to make any of the changes that scientists are insisting are necessary, it is going to take wholesale changes to lifestyles right across the civilised world, and frankly, the civilsed world likes things as they are, and shows not one iota of a thought about changing things - predicitions of doom or not.
Indeed it is already happening... look at the recent study about what is happening to the gulf stream, the loss of ice in greenland, the significant year-on-year sustained average temperature increases... it is not just "modelling" as youngmafbog says... the greenhouse effect is very well-proven.
"However, nobody has explained how a bit of warm weather sets fire to trees. "
bit of a silly thing to write NewJudge... it doesn't "set fire to trees", it intensifies and enlarges an existing phenomenon which was at a manageable and recoverable scale to extreme proportions that are not: sustained warmer temperatures over the long term cause atmospheric changes - including much gustier and drier conditions, essentially the perfect environment for fires to spread. The warmer conditions also make it harder for forests to recover from forest fires which makes deforestation more likely.
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"However, nobody has explained how a bit of warm weather sets fire to trees. "
bit of a silly thing to write NewJudge... it doesn't "set fire to trees", it intensifies and enlarges an existing phenomenon which was at a manageable and recoverable scale to extreme proportions that are not: sustained warmer temperatures over the long term cause atmospheric changes - including much gustier and drier conditions, essentially the perfect environment for fires to spread. The warmer conditions also make it harder for forests to recover from forest fires which makes deforestation more likely.
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