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Climate Scientist Kevin Anderson on The Unforgiving Math For Staying Under 2 Degrees

2/15/2016

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PictureClimate Scientist Kevin Anderson
In the landmark Paris accord, 195 countries from around the world agreed that they would collectively keep average global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees, and that they would pursue efforts to limit warming to 1.5 degrees. But what does science have to say on actually keeping those goals? And how fast, and by how much, will we have to cut our emissions to get there?

Professor Kevin Anderson, deputy director of the influential Tyndall Centre, is a climate scientist who looks at exactly this question. And the math he comes away with, isn't pretty. We look at the small timeframe we have to make the Paris declarations a reality, and why it won't be as straightforward as perhaps some of us have been led to believe... 

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Apneaman
3/21/2016 09:45:48 pm

Lets not forget that none of these scenarios include positive self reinforcing feedback loops, many of which are well under way. Also, the IPPC scenarios include, not yet invented, carbon capture technology.



Self-Reinforcing Feedback Loops (Part 2 of 3)

http://guymcpherson.com/climate-chaos/self-reinforcing-feedback-loops-2/

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