Global emissions elevate the chance of climate change wreaking havoc this century

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      Just what we needed to hear: the Guardian has reported that the worst carbon emissions in history last year—30.6 gigatonnes—have made it more doubtful that we'll avoid increasing the average global temperature by two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

      And that means we can probably expect dangerous disruptions to unfold as a result of climate change within this century.

      "I am very worried. This is the worst news on emissions," International Energy Agency chief economist Fatih Birol told the Guardian. "It is becoming extremely challenging to remain below two degrees. The prospect is getting bleaker. That is what the numbers say."

      His comments pertain to unpublished estimates by the IEA.

      Nicholas Stern, author of the Stern report on the economics of climate change, told the Guardian that these latest figures suggest there is a 50-percent chance that the average temperature could rise by four degrees Celsius by the end of the century.

      About three-quarters of the emissions increase has come from developing countries, according to the Guardian report.

      Climate change was barely an issue in the last Canadian federal election, which rankled Green party leader Elizabeth May.

      The lack of coverage shouldn't come as a surprise, given how many advertising dollars Big Oil and the coal companies shower upon Canadian media companies.

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      9 Comments

      Birdy

      May 29, 2011 at 4:35pm

      Come on Charlie, give it a rest with the Big Oil bullshit. Everyone now knows that the "carbon credits" in BC simply take money from the public school system and GIVE IT TO OIL COMPANIES. "Big Oil" loves the climate hoax, that's why they fund it from top to bottom.

      Here's a link from a hippy-dippy green blog explaining it. I thought maybe it would be more palatable for you to hear it from a left/green source.
      http://thetyee.ca/News/2011/05/09/EncanasFix/

      Another interesting tidbit:
      1% increase in global Co2 levels = 8% increase in global food crop yields. It works in reverse too. No wonder all the population reduction obsessed globalists in these elitist international organizations want to reduce Co2.

      As far as the sea level goes, even the IPCC itself says "No significant acceleration in the rate of sea level rise during the 20th century has been detected" (The sea level has been rising 1.8mm a year for the last 8000 years and it's not changing)

      In conclusion, the sky is not falling, and a biblical eco-pocolypse is not around the corner. Cheer up!

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      You

      May 29, 2011 at 10:12pm

      Nope, we don't need to worry about global warming. That's because we'll run out of oil before it matters. And at that point--when there are no more petrochemicals to make plastics, rubber, other chemicals, and well, pretty much everything modern--society as we know it will collapse.

      And "climate hoax". You kill me. Whether the world is heating up or not, do you really think we're going to have decent air to breathe even ten years down the road?

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      Chet

      May 30, 2011 at 4:25am

      THere is no Global Warming Stevie Harper

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      Goldorak

      May 30, 2011 at 8:22am

      The Stern report author? I think Charlie, you should get a more balanced view: why don't you interview Suzuki? LOL keep your green agit prop courtesy of BC Hydro...

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      G. Smiley

      May 30, 2011 at 9:19am

      Oh Charlie, give it up already!

      AGW as a theory has completely collapsed... and is solely reserved for the incessant bleating of the few, brain-washed sheep that remain.

      "Let me summarize how the key issues appear to me, a working scientist with a better background than most in the physics of climate. CO2 really is a greenhouse gas and other things being equal, adding the gas to the atmosphere by burning coal, oil, and natural gas will modestly increase the surface temperature of the earth. Other things being equal, doubling the CO2 concentration, from our current 390 ppm to 780 ppm will directly cause about 1 degree Celsius in warming. At the current rate of CO2 increase in the atmosphere—about 2 ppm per year—it would take about 195 years to achieve this doubling. The combination of a slightly warmer earth and more CO2 will greatly increase the production of food, wood, fiber, and other products by green plants, so the increase will be good for the planet, and will easily outweigh any negative effects. Supposed calamities like the accelerated rise of sea level, ocean acidification, more extreme climate, tropical diseases near the poles, and so on are greatly exaggerated." - William Happer, Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics at Princeton University.

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      Elsie Dean

      May 30, 2011 at 10:13am

      I am more concerned with destroying the earth by over use of resources and pollution especially of water; the absence of resource planning leading to careless waste. Greed and pursuit of power by the few wealthy who control government and dictate where they invest (oil sands, arctic oil etc), unfair distribution leading to impoverishment of the majority of the world's people. We must take the power to destroy away from the few and start to implement a plan that will support a healthy life for all the living plants and animals that depend on our earth.

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      Oil Slick Mick

      May 30, 2011 at 11:31am

      The bleating climate change deniers get more pathetic every day. That they can still deny scientific fact in the face of overwhelming research and real-life, real-time observation shows that they are either shills for the fossil fuel industry or are just moronic enough to swallow the oily spin. Either one is not pretty.

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      Mike Puttonen

      May 30, 2011 at 8:54pm

      The old Percy Shelley chestnut we all learned in school says it best...

      “OZYMANDIAS

      I met a traveller from an antique land
      Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
      Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
      Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
      And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
      Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
      Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
      The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
      And on the pedestal these words appear:
      `My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
      Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
      Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
      Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
      The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

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      danR

      May 30, 2011 at 8:56pm

      Al Gore hypothesis-testing junk science.

      Harold Camping stuff for people who don't know the difference between predictive modeling and hitting the thumbs-down vote button.
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