Monday, August 2, 2010

Depressing

... However, as the years pass and the emissions continue to grow, it gets harder and harder to turn the juggernaut around in time. On the most optimistic timetable, there might be U.S. climate legislation in 2013, and a global climate deal in 2014, and we really start reducing emissions by 2015.

By then, we would need to be cutting emissions by 5 or 6 per cent a year, instead of growing them at 3 per cent a year, if we still want to come in under +2 degrees C. That’s impossible. No economy can change the sources of its energy at the rate of 8 or 9 per cent a year. So we are going to blow right through the point of no return.

The last resort on climate change - Gwynne Dyer

This is a monumental failure of world leadership that will doom all life on Earth unless a miracle happens.

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