You know you're living in a world of state-corporate media propaganda when you click that just like today scientists and politicians in the 1980s were calling for huge decreases in greenhouse gas emissions within 12 years due to fears over global warming and it's still not news.
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'An international conference of scientists and senior politicians in Toronto last June called for a 20-per-cent decrease in emissions by the year 2005.'
Look in the supplementary materials of the peer-reviewed science discussed here and you may come to the conclusion that not only may 1.5C & 1.75C be impossible targets, but that 2C may be virtually impossible too.
Which statement best describes the current climate chaos situation?
a) avoiding +1.5°C may be possible
b) long-term warming expected from today's +500ppm CO₂-e is at least 2.5℃
c) temperature rises of 3- 4°C are likely now locked in
d) all of the above
Scientists differ on whether this statement is appropriate:
'The Australian Academy of Science says the more ambitious target of the Paris Climate Agreement of keeping global warming to 1.5 degrees has now slipped out of reach and is “virtually impossible”smh.com.au/environment/cl…
State-corporate media remain silent on this:
'Atmospheric scientists use CO₂-e as a convenient way to aggregate the effect of all the long-lived greenhouse gases..
The EU's own Environment Agency says at the present decadal growth rate of 3.0 ppm per year, peak global greenhouse gas concentrations for limiting the increase of global average temperature to 1.5°C will be exceeded around 2021, and, for 2°C, around 2034. eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/…
'It is important to consider all gases and other forcing agents using the so-called ‘CO2 equivalent’ (CO2e); that is an equivalent amount to the concentration of CO2 that would cause the same amount of radiative forcing as a mixture of CO2 & other forcing agents (ghgs & aerosols)
'global greenhouse gas concentrations must not exceed 465 (range 445-485) ppm and should have returned to 411 (390-430) ppm by 2100 to limit the increase to 1.5 °C; for the 2 °C limit, the corresponding values are 505 (470-540) and 480 (460-500) ppm, respectively.'
The absolute wall-to-wall coverage of the major UN report saying the entire human food system is today in jeopardy due to ecological and climate disasters demonstrates how right we all are to place our absolute trust in state-corporate media.
'At no other point in history has agriculture been faced with such an array of familiar and unfamiliar risks...
disasters... are upending people’s lives, devastating livelihoods, and jeopardizing our entire food system'.
We're heading for the global catastrophe of +450 ppm of CO2 by the 2030s in the context of destructive economic growth & industrial agriculture in a world of nuclear weapons.
We can and must force emergency political-economic-system-change action now.
'the eventual warming for 407ppm CO2 will be about 3.5°C'
~James Hansen (who hasn't given up)
3.5°C is horrific, hard to survive. We must suck carbon from the atmosphere, but forests are losing their ability to do this. Industrial methods seem unfeasible.monthlyreview.org/2019/02/01/mr-…