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Related: About this forumAnybody heard of this 6-page climate study that everyone is talking about
This story is popping up today about a 2009 paper in Nature that has everyone talking today. I've never heard of it, but the findings are pretty huge.
The Most Influential Climate Science Paper Today Remains Unknown to Most People
Just six pages long, it is stoking a new moral urgency for climate action and forcing the financial world to reconsider the value of fossil fuel reserves.
http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20140213/climate-change-science-carbon-budget-nature-global-warming-2-degrees-bill-mckibben-fossil-fuels-keystone-xl-oil
NRaleighLiberal
(60,015 posts)TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)Edited to add: to read the report you have to pay.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v458/n7242/full/nature08017.html
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)I strongly object to the fact that I am asked to pay or required to be affiliated with some institution that pays in order to read scholarly articles written by people working at universities (and therefore paid for writing articles and doing research) and governments around the world.
It just doesn't take that much to put an article on the internet. Please.
Why aren't scholarly articles available to everyone for free on the internet?
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719
Global Warming's Terrifying New Math
Three simple numbers that add up to global catastrophe - and that make clear who the real enemy is
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)Last edited Thu Feb 14, 2013, 03:19 PM - Edit history (1)
It's the data that Bill McKibben bases his current climate activism on.
Basically, it says we have enough FF in the ground to fry life on the planet to a deep crispy golden-brown if we burn it all.
BTW - we are, quite probably, going to burn it all.
Here's a free link to the paper:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v458/n7242/full/nature08017.html