Well, I suppose that's better than 3 degrees of Kevin Bacon.
Posted on 03/21/2012 8:24:21 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The world is on track for around four degrees Celsius of global warming under current carbon emissions trends, says the EU’s chief climate negotiator, a trajectory that some scientists say risks a planetary mass extinction event.
"When you look at the global emissions, with the current pledges which are on the table … we are probably heading towards 3.8 or 4.2 degrees [warming],” said Artur Runge-Metzger, speaking at a roundtable hosted in Brussels by the Institut français des relations internationales on 14 March.
The EU official then asked US and Japanese officials at the roundtable: “Are you making preparations in your countries to tell your industries and households what it means to adapt to a four-degree [change] and have you made estimates of what these costs are that will be born by the public sector and households?”
Japan has refused to commit to a second round of commitments under the Kyoto Protocol, while the US has still not ratified the treaty itself.
The Japanese trade official, Jun Arima, said he had “a serious doubt” that current pledges would be enough to limit global warming to two degrees, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change’s official target.
For the US Mission to the EU, Dale Eppler, the climate attaché, said that he was not aware of any studies on the climate impacts of a four degrees temperature rise for the US population.
“There is a significant amount of opposition to work on climate policy [in the US],” he said. “Parts of Congress have even blocked attempts to set up a climate service.” …
(Excerpt) Read more at euractiv.com ...
We’re headed into a mini-Ice Age.
In 20 years, a 4 degree increase would be welcome.
These bastards don’t give up.
They really do want to tax the world. The airline carbon tax is just the start.
They want to bring on the New World Order.
Ask Bush 41.
All of it going to create a new class of rich elite socialists.....
Well, I suppose that's better than 3 degrees of Kevin Bacon.
I guess he didn’t get the memo about global warming being postponed because of lack of interest.
Sure would be a shame if he was pumped full of hot lead until his body literally fell apart.
Thanks Olog-hai.
It's dead Al .. give it up and slither away
.. or the Spanish Inquisition
OT: it feels like FR’s about to crash again :-(
If it does, then global warming ain’t to blame . . .
Ping.
I think a mass extinction event would be the best we could hope for.
At least it might get rid of the UN chief climate negotiator.
We have 4 inches of snow, and it has not stopped....and this is Western Oregon in “Spring.” Global warming we could USE!
I don’t have any trust in climate scientists who have drunk the global warming kool-aid.
follow the money. academics who don’t adhere to orthodoxy
don’t share in the grant bounty from politicians eager to
pump up the base.
Let me guess: the solution is trillions of dollars to their organizations.
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