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World must shift to solar & wind rapidly to avoid catastrophic global warming, say UN scientists
The London Daily Mail ^ | April 12, 2014 | Ben Spencer in Berlin

Posted on 04/13/2014 8:14:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

A rapid shift to wind and solar power is needed if the world is to avoid catastrophic global warming, the United Nations warns in a crucial report today.

Emissions of greenhouse gases need to be cut by up to 70 per cent before 2050 to control climate change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says.

‘Large-scale changes in energy systems’ are required, with coal power stations to be switched off and replaced by wind and solar.

And the transformation needs to be made in the next 15 years or controlling climate change will become increasingly harder and more expensive.

The report was published in Berlin today after a week of line-by-line drafting and re-drafting.

The final version, written by 235 international scientists and economists, says that efforts so far have failed to stop spiralling emissions of greenhouse gases – which have risen to ‘unprecedented levels’ in the past decade....

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: climatechange; energy; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; gorebullwarming; hoax; ipcc; unitednations
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Full title: The world must shift to solar and wind power rapidly to avoid catastrophic global warming, say UN scientists in major report
1 posted on 04/13/2014 8:14:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We must act now before it is too late.


2 posted on 04/13/2014 8:16:23 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Then tax that solar and wind power. Then make it a rule that all power generated would come under the control of the “UN”.


3 posted on 04/13/2014 8:16:26 PM PDT by Dallas59 ("Remember me as you pass by, As you are now, so once was I, As I am now, so you will be," -Epitap)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“And the transformation needs to be made in the next 15 years or controlling climate change will become increasingly harder and more expensive. “

Like it wouldn’t be anyway.

Delusion


4 posted on 04/13/2014 8:17:10 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Solandra...

Been there, Done that, with millions of taxpayer money down the sh!thole.

FUBO


5 posted on 04/13/2014 8:17:51 PM PDT by wetgundog (" Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Whaaaaatt?? I can’t hear you. Can you say it louder? hahah


6 posted on 04/13/2014 8:17:56 PM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The only way to stop global warming is to shut down 90% of government activities!!


7 posted on 04/13/2014 8:18:04 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

UN scientist need to shut the hell up.


8 posted on 04/13/2014 8:18:20 PM PDT by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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So the best way to save the planet is by destroying as much avian life as possible? This SOB MUST be a member of PETA, no one else could want to kill so many animals.
9 posted on 04/13/2014 8:19:44 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The world must kill all UN bureaucrats or face extermination in Agenda 21 death camps.


10 posted on 04/13/2014 8:20:55 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The best way to control opposition is to lead it ourselves." -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin)
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“...needs to be made in the next 15 years or controlling climate change will become increasingly harder and more expensive.”

Please! Where and when have we heard that bleating before?!

Have these people never heard of The Boy Who Cried Wolf?


11 posted on 04/13/2014 8:21:21 PM PDT by prisoner6 (I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered! I AM A FREE MAN!)
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The only way to stop global warming is to shut down 90% of government activities!!

Well no, there's always nuclear winter.

12 posted on 04/13/2014 8:21:34 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What will happen to our climate when a million wind plants suck a terawatt of power out of the moving air and convert it eventually to low-level thermal waste?


13 posted on 04/13/2014 8:22:04 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
We're all going to DIE!

5.56mm

14 posted on 04/13/2014 8:22:09 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Welcome to third world status (except for the elites, of course).


15 posted on 04/13/2014 8:23:01 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Is anyone else having problem with the popping noises from burning the newer tires? It gets really loud.

/johnny

16 posted on 04/13/2014 8:23:07 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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..........absolutely fraudulent claim to the core!

.........though 10 years away from industrial capability, the Navy has figured out how to convert sea water to fuel.

when on line, that sea water fuel will just about put the Saudi’s and fossil fuel out of business................as we know it (the oil industry) today anyway...........

needless to say, there will be a big fight over who is licensed to produce it and distribute it and who owns the patents. If Harry Reid is still in power, my bet will be that his son and the Chinese will.


17 posted on 04/13/2014 8:24:03 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid!)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

I guess that might work except for all the huge fireballs hotter than the sun


18 posted on 04/13/2014 8:24:16 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How can I become a UN scientist? Sounds like the qualifications are minimal and an easy gig just spouting off nonsense.


19 posted on 04/13/2014 8:26:44 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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UN HQ should be on Wind and Solar only to show us how it’s done . Give up those big cars and go Electric . Give up traveling by plane and go with Hot Air Balloons


20 posted on 04/13/2014 8:26:45 PM PDT by molson209 (Hillary Clinton)
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