New IPCC report is out

[_EAllusion]

It's bleak. "Might be a good idea to move to Canada now to get a head start" bleak.

[_honorentheos]

http://www.ipcc.ch/report/sr15/

[_honorentheos]

From a NYT article on the report -

The authors found that if greenhouse gas emissions continue at the current rate, the atmosphere will warm up by as much as 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) above preindustrial levels by 2040, inundating coastlines and intensifying droughts and poverty. Previous work had focused on estimating the damage if average temperatures were to rise by a larger number, 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius), because that was the threshold scientists previously considered for the most severe effects of climate change.

The new report, however, shows that many of those effects will come much sooner, at the 2.7-degree mark.

Avoiding the most serious damage requires transforming the world economy within just a few years, said the authors, who estimate that the damage would come at a cost of $54 trillion. But while they conclude that it is technically possible to achieve the rapid changes required to avoid 2.7 degrees of warming, they concede that it may be politically unlikely.

For instance, the report says that heavy taxes or prices on carbon dioxide emissions — perhaps as high as $27,000 per ton by 2100 — would be required. But such a move would be almost politically impossible in the United States, the world’s largest economy and second-largest greenhouse gas emitter behind China. Lawmakers around the world, including in China, the European Union and California, have enacted carbon pricing programs.

President Trump, who has mocked the science of human-caused climate change, has vowed to increase the burning of coal and said he intends to withdraw from the Paris agreement. And on Sunday in Brazil, the world’s seventh-largest emitter of greenhouse gas, voters appeared on track to elect a new president, Jair Bolsonaro, who has said he also plans to withdraw from the accord.

The report was written and edited by 91 scientists from 40 countries who analyzed more than 6,000 scientific studies. The Paris agreement set out to prevent warming of more than 3.6 degrees above preindustrial levels — long considered a threshold for the most severe social and economic damage from climate change. But the heads of small island nations, fearful of rising sea levels, had also asked scientists to examine the effects of 2.7 degrees of warming.

[_DoubtingThomas]

Another reason to spread out into space.

[_honorentheos]

Another reason to spread out into space.

DT's law in full effect.

[_DoubtingThomas]

But sadly nobody cares about climate change.

[_DoubtingThomas]

Another reason to spread out into space.

DT's law in full effect.

I am not a progressive. Why do you hate me?

[_DoubtingThomas]

honorentheos, I think it is time for you to grow up. It is just a message board okay.

[_honorentheos]

Why do you hate me?

I don't hate you, DT.

If you are who you claim to be, pointing out problems with how you come across or gaps in your expressed views is the most honest, charitable thing I can do as an anonymous and indifferent poster on the internet. I'm not your friend who would quietly signal to you that you have something stuck in your teeth or your zipper is down when no one else is looking. But I'll tell you when you have something stuck in your teeth or your zipper is down so you can fix it if you care or dismiss it if you don't.

OTOH, if you aren't who you claim to be and are who you sometimes come across as being, it's good for everyone else to point that out.

[_honorentheos]

honorentheos, I think it is time for you to grow up. It is just a message board okay.

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