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Global warming goals slipping away


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By Alex Morales, Bloomberg

The only three living diplomats who have led the United Nations global warming talks said there’s little chance the next climate treaty will prevent the world from overheating.

The specific goal, to hold temperature increases to 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, was endorsed by envoys from 190 nations in 2010. It’s considered the maximum the environment can bear before climate change becomes more dangerous. Delegates to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change meet in Warsaw starting Nov. 11 to work on a treaty that could be agreed to in 2015.

The comments from the current and former executive secretaries to the UNFCCC add to the urgency of the Warsaw talks. Humans already have emitted more than half the greenhouse gases needed to surpass the 2-degree target, a panel of scientists brought together by the UN concluded in September. The World Bank last year said the planet is on track to warm by 4 degrees this century, a level that would raise the seas, worsen droughts and make storms more violent.

“There is nothing that can be agreed in 2015 that would be consistent with the 2 degrees,” said Yvo de Boer, who was UNFCCC executive secretary in 2009, when attempts to reach a deal at a summit in Copenhagen crumbled with a rift between industrialized and developing nations. “The only way that a 2015 agreement can achieve a 2-degree goal is to shut down the whole global economy.”

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  1. A.B. says - Posted: November 10, 2013

    If people who push this agenda were serious about it, they would give up travel, heat, electricity and air conditioning to lead by example. But they won’t do that because Global Warming is a Global Scam and they know it!

  2. cosa pescado says - Posted: November 10, 2013

    Science says AB denies reality.
    Cite a peer reviewed paper that supports your denialist position. For once.
    You can’t admit that there is a problem because then you would feel compelled to do something.
    Beat that straw man.

  3. Marlene at Tahoe says - Posted: November 11, 2013

    A.B. You are absolutly correct. There has been a multitude of documentation published and I have referenced many links here. BUT the Scamsters and their devotees that take abuses of some industrialists, that have treated the earth as a dumping ground, have created, over several decades and promoted by the likes of ALGORE!!!, a cabal of deceit and 1/1000th truth,s based on syphoning MONEY from truly hardworking, innocent people from around the globe!!
    The true scientific minded whom base their comments on FACT NOT “PHONEY MODELS”, look at actual relevent source material and are NOT FUNDED BY THE GOV’S MEGLOMANIACS THAT WANT TO CONTROL THE WORLD!! are the ones being listened too.

    Unfortunate that the rest of us have to endure over and over what the demons on this earth throw at us!

    It is so simple, use what you need, don’t abuse and waste what God has created and help your fellow man.

  4. cosa pescado says - Posted: November 11, 2013

    Funny how you mention:
    “The true scientific minded whom base their comments on FACT”
    And your comment lacks anything factual.