That 2 Degrees Climate Goal is 'Utterly Inadequate,' Says Expert Report

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http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/13764/20150328/2-degrees-climate-goal-utterly-inadequate-expert-report.htm

That's at least according to a commentary report recently issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and published in the open access journal Climate Change Responses.

The report details the nitty-gritty of a two-day discussion at the 2014 Lima Conference of the Parties (COP) on the likely consequences of accepting an average global warming target of two degrees Celsius versus something even less.

"The consensus that transpired during this session was that a 2°C danger level seemed utterly inadequate given the already observed impacts on ecosystems, food, livelihoods, and sustainable development," report author Petra Tschakert, from The Pennsylvania State University, said in an emailed statement.

Gee, who would have predicted that?

[GliderGuider]

1. Kevin Anderson of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research agrees.

2C is a bullshit political goal, and even that's not achievable.

Just limiting the rise to 2C would require a stable CO2 concentration of 350 ppm at most. We're currently at 400. There is no realistic way to take the stuff back out of the atmosphere. As the article notes, the climate is already breaking down. This the very definition of "Too fucking late."

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2. The article implies that, even if achieved, we'd still be fucked at 2C of warming

Given the impacts we're already seeing at only 0.8C so far.