Leaked document: Emission targets at Copenhagen could still produce “catastrophic” global warming

Hot Air via time.com ^ | Dec.17, 2009 | Allahpundit

[Free ThinkerNY]

How wonderful that this very not-minor revelation is buried fully 10 paragraphs down in Time’s dispatch from the conference.

Even if diplomats make progress on a deal in Copenhagen, however, it’s becoming increasingly clear that any viable agreement will fall far short of the level of carbon cuts that science demands.

A paper leaked from, and confirmed to be authentic by, the U.N. on Thursday night contains an assessment of the emissions-reduction pledges put forward so far in Copenhagen.

It calculates that even if all developed and developing nations keep their promises, atmospheric carbon concentrations would rise as high as 770 parts per million, and temperatures could rise 3°C by the end of the century.

The upper safe zone in temperature rise, according to many scientists, is 2°C, and the limit called for by vulnerable island nations is 1.5°C. “This document shows that for all the U.N. spouts about 2°C, the plan comes nowhere near it,” says Bill McKibben, the environmental writer who runs 350.org, an environmental group that calls for far deeper carbon cuts.

“This is the real Climategate, and it shows that any agreement we sign at this summit will be the equivalent of a suicide pact.”

[Da Coyote]

Bull Obama. We’re in for cooling.

And, if this occurs, I volunteer to be on the guillotine squad for all the those “Scientists”.

(I’ll have a busy schedule, already having volunteered to run the blade after our upcoming revolution for all the progressives. Actually, I cannot wait.)

[b4its2late]

It’s all BS!

[JasonC]

The "suicide pact" part is true enough, and what the greens have wanted all along. They are for human extinction and consider mankind a cancer of the earth's ecosystem. They will settle for a die-back to hunter-gatherer existence...

[Clint Williams]

And, if this occurs, I volunteer to be on the guillotine squad for all the those “Scientists”.

Your job will be to plant their heads on pikes.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409855/posts

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

I guess you won’t have any time to watch and knit.

[Asfarastheeastisfromthewest...]

Of course it's BS.... if all human beings were removed from the planet, it would only result in a reduction of the so called greenhouse gases by 0.28%. That's like the square root of squat! And they obviously aren't quite suggesting the removal of all human beings from the planet....well, not yet anyway.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[UAConservative]

It calculates that even if all developed and developing nations keep their promises, atmospheric carbon concentrations would rise as high as 770 parts per million, and temperatures could rise 3°C by the end of the century.

This is pure bull, but even if it were true, it just goes to show that us human beings can't control the forces of nature that God created.

To the UN: You can't argue with or defeat an omniscient, omnipotent creator.

[GeronL]

what science demands?

science does not demand

demand is politics

[KevinB]

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

what science demands?

science does not demand

demand is politics

Just so.

[MilicaBee]

You beat me to it!

It is a suicide pact. First for national sovereignty. And almost simultaneously for the elderly, the very young, the infirm — the first whose lives will be swept away by those who view man as an invasive species on the earth instead of its steward. And like suicide, it is designed to destroy men’s souls.