For the next two weeks, thousands of diplomats from around the globe will gather in Lima, Peru, for a UN summit meeting to draft an agreement intended to stop the global rise of planet-warming greenhouse gas. But while scientists welcome the new momentum ahead of the Lima talks, they warn it now may be impossible to prevent the temperature of the planets atmosphere from rising by two degrees Celsius. According to a large body of scientific research, that is the tipping point at which the world will be locked into a near-term future of drought, food and water shortages, melting ice sheets, shrinking glaciers, rising sea levels and widespread flooding - events that could harm the worlds population and economy. Recent reports show that there may be no way to prevent the planets temperature from rising, given the current level of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere and the projected rate of emissions expected to continue before any new deal is carried out. That fact is driving the urgency of the Lima talks. While a breach of the two degree threshold appears inevitable, scientists say that that UN negotiators should not give up on their efforts to cut emissions. At stake now, they say, is the difference between a newly unpleasant world and an uninhabitable one. Well thank you, Australian Financial Review. https://youtube/watch?v=jxqVHNFRx6U#t=00m10s
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 23:01:08 +0000
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