Distant-Help » UK government http://www.distant-help.com Think Different and Act, soon there is no nature left to save! Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:47:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Time to Prepare for Abrupt 4°C Warming http://www.distant-help.com/2008/08/08/time-to-prepare-for-abrupt-4%c2%b0c-warming/ http://www.distant-help.com/2008/08/08/time-to-prepare-for-abrupt-4%c2%b0c-warming/#comments Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:00:03 +0000 Eric http://www.distant-help.com/2008/08/08/time-to-prepare-for-abrupt-4%c2%b0c-warming/ Bob Watson [search], former IPCC chief and leading climate scientist, has advised the UK government to start preparing [ark] for massive 4°C in warming. While not backing away from urgent policies to limit warming to 2°C warming, the sheer momentum of warming trends makes flood protection, agriculture and coastal erosion adaptations necessary. Chances for [...]]]> Trends in population and consumption ensure abrupt warmingBob Watson [search], former IPCC chief and leading climate scientist, has advised the UK government to start preparing [ark] for massive 4°C in warming. While not backing away from urgent policies to limit warming to 2°C warming, the sheer momentum of warming trends makes flood protection, agriculture and coastal erosion adaptations necessary. Chances for abrupt, run-away warming [search] have traditionally been given short-thrift in politically compromised international climate negotiations. Yet even with a comprehensive global carbon deal it is suggested there is at least a 50% probability that temperatures would exceed 2°C and a 20% probability they would exceed 3.5°C. And if trends in failed climate policy continue, and pollution goes unchecked for decades and even centuries, we can expect much worse.

Every day of delay by governments and individuals in reducing makes it increasingly likely the Earth will experience rapid, scorching heat and “global weirding” [search] where climate patterns chaotically break down. By definition predictions are guesses based upon the best available information. I would not be surprised if given continued surging global population and gross consumption, the atmosphere and other key ecosystems collapse making the Earth incapable of supporting advanced life. Or that the current climate and global change ecological science is significantly wrong in still unknown manners. Yet what choice do we have but to act upon the best knowledge currently available while seeking more, and what outcome other than catastrophe can result from destruction of which we know are a requirement for all life?

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