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BERLIN The countries of the world have dragged their feet so long on global warming that the situation is now critical, experts appointed by the United Nations reported Sunday, and only an intensive worldwide push over the next 15 years can stave off potentially disastrous climatic changes later in the century.
It remains technically possible to keep planetary warming to a tolerable level, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found, according to a report unveiled here. But even in parts of the world like Europe that have tried hardest, governments are still a long way from taking the steps that are sufficient to do the job, the experts found.
We cannot afford to lose another decade, said Ottmar Edenhofer, a German economist and co-chairman of the committee that wrote the report. If we lose another decade, it becomes extremely costly to achieve climate stabilization.
The report is likely to increase the pressure to secure an ambitious new global climate treaty that is supposed to be completed in late 2015 and take effect in 2020. But the divisions between wealthy countries and poorer countries that are making such a treaty difficult, and have long bedeviled international climate talks, were on display yet again in Berlin.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/14/science/earth/un-climate-panel-warns-speedier-action-is-needed-to-avert-disaster.html?hp&_r=0
TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)pscot
(21,024 posts)into our humdrum lives.
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Octafish
(55,745 posts)Dumping fossil fuels coulda happened over the past six years. And I know where we could've found the money and know-how, I kid you not:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/for-the-price-of-the-iraq-war-the-u-s-could-have-a-100-renewable-power-system/5330881
Zorra
(27,670 posts)into our own hand with a planned, controlled, non-violent, progressive revolution. Which may be impossible, given the nature of the multitudes of media created RW zombies who feed on hate.
Our only other alternative will be to shut it all down with non-participation, and hope for the best.
That's All, Folks.