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International-UN-NGOs
Climate change fight affordable, cut emissions to zero by 2100-UN
2014-11-03
[ARABNEWS] Governments can keep climate change in check at manageable costs but will have to cut greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2100 to limit fast-worsening risks, a UN report showed.

The 40-page synthesis, summing up 5,000 pages of work by 800 scientists already published since September 2013, said global warming was now causing more heat extremes, downpours, acidifying the oceans and pushing up sea levels.

"There is still time, but very little time" to act at manageable costs, Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), told Rooters.

He was referring to a UN goal of limiting average surface temperature rises to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6F) above pre-industrial times. Temperatures are already up 0.85 C (1.4F).

To get a good chance of staying below 2C, the report says that world emissions would have to fall to "near zero or below in 2100." UN Secretary-General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
 will help present the report in Copenhagen on Sunday.

The study, given authority by the approval of officials from more than 120 governments in a week of editing, will be the main handbook for 200 nations which are due to agree a UN deal to combat global warming in Gay Paree in late 2015.

Posted by:Fred

#15  So-o-o IIUC, IOW be it Global Secular Communism-Socialism or Global Islam, THE US-WORLD IS NOT GOING INTO SPACE NOR WILL THERE BE GLOBAL/UNIVERSAL DEV + INDUSTRIALIZATION, ETC. IN SUPPORT OF SAME???

Instead of Global/Universal "Progress" or "Prgressivism", IT WILL BE GLOBAL/UNIVERSAL REGRESSIONISM + ISOLATIONISM, DEGRESSION + DE-EVOLUTION, INSTEAD???

* [Once again, 1960'S-70'S = 2014 "INTERSTELLAR" Movie HERE].
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2014-11-03 20:42  

#14  Rambler, to quote dear Insty,

"I'll believe that AGW is a problem when the people telling me that it's a problem ACT like it's a problem."

Live in multi-million dollar mansions and scream about workable, effective technology? You are only looking for money and power, screw you.
Posted by: AlanC   2014-11-03 19:17  

#13  Sounds like more of the Soros-funded Agenda 21 crowd coming up with crazy, crazy stuff.
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-11-03 18:00  

#12  Yet nuclear reactors produce little or no CO2, and could produce a large fraction of the world's electrical needs. But every time someone proposes building a nuke plant, the greenies scream and shout and pull out all the stops to block it.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2014-11-03 16:24  

#11  http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2009/12/hypocrite-as-well-as-liar.html

Many people will remember the strident headline at the end of November blaring: "Western lifestyle unsustainable, says climate expert Rajendra Pachauri". That was the version in The Guardian, but other papers carried something very similar.

How so very different might have been the reception had the newspapers carried a photograph of the house occupied by multi-millionaire businessman Dr Rajendra K Pachauri, currently 160 Central Golf Links Road, New Delhi. This is situated in a delightful residential area (pictured above and below) very close to Khan Market, the most expensive market in India.

It is described as one of the most expensive places to live in India. The cheapest houses sell for millions of US dollars. It is considered one of the richest neighborhoods in India and the name is inspired by the Delhi Golf Course nearby. It has only 210 detached houses.

Posted by: Choting Speaking for Boskone6255   2014-11-03 16:10  

#10  But, but... dissent is the highest form of patriotism!

Oh, wait - dude, that was, like, six years ago.
Posted by: Raj   2014-11-03 14:12  

#9  CBS This Morning gave this story a whole lot of air time this morning. There was no balance in the report, not even the slightest effort to find differing opinions. So, according to CBS, you are all bad, ignorant, dangerous people for being skeptical about this and the next time Barack Obama wants to give half a billion dollars of your money to some of his cronies for a phony solar energy company you better just shut your mouths.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2014-11-03 13:45  

#8  Climate change fight affordable, cut emissions to zero by 2100-UN

Step 1: Set bull$hit goal for bull$hit hyped cause that nobody can disprove.

Step 2: Work to solidify OWG.

Step 3: Fail to meet goal.

Step 4: Oh well. My bad. AGW is crap after all. But we'll keep OWG in place.
Posted by: gorb   2014-11-03 13:22  

#7  #5 Stop that logic s%@t you hater.
LOL :)
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-11-03 13:08  

#6  ...will be the main handbook for 200 nations which are due to agree a UN deal to combat global warming in Gay Paree in late 2015.

Getting there on a commercial flight or the rented Gulfstream?
Posted by: Raj   2014-11-03 12:12  

#5  Stop that logic s%@t you hater.
Posted by: whitecollar redneck   2014-11-03 11:48  

#4  How do the leftists explain the climate change that resulted in the extinction of the dinosaurs? A period of global warming followed by global cooling? Man wasn't around then to cause this cooling.
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-11-03 10:39  

#3  So zero would be... Stone Age... Without fire.

And without breathing.
Posted by: Glenmore   2014-11-03 10:02  

#2  So zero would be... Stone Age... Without fire.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2014-11-03 08:18  

#1  How about we cut you?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-11-03 03:19  

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