Posted on 01/01/2018 8:11:52 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
Climate researchers are warning that a large chunk of the globe could become a desert if the goals of the Paris climate change accord are not met.
The findings published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change show that more than 25 percent of the world's population will live in a perpetual state of drought and growing desertification if the Earth's temperature rises by 2 degrees Celsius by 2050.
The report says the solution is to prevent global warming from rising above 1.5 degrees C, which the researchers say would significantly reduce the number of regions of the world affected by "aridification," or the drying of the planet.
“Our research predicts that aridification would emerge over about 20-30 percent of the world’s land surface by the time the global mean temperature change reaches 2ºC," said Manoj Joshi, lead researcher from the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. "But two-thirds of the affected regions could avoid significant aridification if warming is limited to 1.5ºC.”
That's where the Paris climate change agreement kicks in, because it calls for countries to reduce greenhouse gases from fossil fuel use to keep from reaching 2 degrees Celsius. Most climate scientists blame greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels for causing manmade climate change.
“The world has already warmed by 1ºC. But by reducing greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere in order to keep global warming under 1.5ºC or 2ºC could reduce the likelihood of significant aridification emerging in many parts of the world,” said Su-Jong Jeong from China's Southern University of Science and Technology, and a participant in the study.
Southern parts of China, as well as much of Southeast Asia, would be hurt by an increasingly dry planet, according to the study.
But it's unlikely the Trump administration will pay much heed to the new findings. President Trump announced in June that he would pull the U.S. out of the climate change deal, arguing that the Paris Agreement benefited China and India with longer transition timelines that made it unfair to the United States.
Trump took to Twitter last week to comment on the recent cold snap in the eastern U.S., saying "we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against."
Meteorologists pointed out that the U.S. will experience the coldest temperatures on the planet relative to normal averages over the New Year's holiday. Much of the globe will be experiencing much higher average temperatures.
The Jan. 1 climate study points out that many of the regions that would be affected by increased drought and desert-like conditions include much of Central America, Southeast Asia, Southern Europe, Southern Africa and Southern Australia.
The regions represent more than 20 percent of the world's population, according to the study. Some of those regions are slated to receive funding under the Paris deal's Green Climate Fund to help them adapt to the effects of a changing climate.
The millions of dollars the U.S. was required to dole out each year for the fund was a major reason for Trump's decision to leave the agreement.
Contributors to the green fund are slated to provide a total of at least $120 billion each year by 2020. The contributing countries include mainly developed, industrial countries such as the U.S., France, Germany, and Canada.
The Paris temperature targets of 1.5°C and 2°C can help judge whether climate change policies have been effective in curbing global drying and aridification by providing a benchmark for the worst effects of global warming, the study said.
I like deserts, they are pretty.
And what happens if they are wrong? — Oh well, sorry. No wait, they won’t apologize nor will the admit that they were wrong.
Yes
A US lawsuit based on freedom of information act wanted to see all public funded global warming research, so the global warming scammers declared the only true research to be based there, because they don’t have FOIA there.
Then some ACTUAL scientist there couldn’t take the nonsense anymore and leaked a Ton of emails exposing conversations between “Global Warming Scientist” where they discuss how to best fake data to get the desired results.
The entire Global warming hoax was clearly revealed in those emails.
But with nothing but Fake News and populist narratives as an information source, most people have no idea.
The Global Warming Hoax is a 3 legg stool.
That is, to understand why it is being pushed so hard, to must also understand the Chicago Climate Exchange and Cap and Trade.
The three represent a new Fiat commodities market where one trades in carbon credits.
Many very powerful rich folks are very invested financially into this scam
Exactly. When the dinosaurs walked the earth the CO2 levels in the atmosphere were about 26% compared to 21% now. The entire earth was like a lush green jungle.
I just looked this up. Took about 10 seconds: Seen from space, the majority of the Earth’s surface is covered by oceans – that makes up 71% of the surface of the Earth, with the remaining 29% for land. But what percentage of the Earth’s land surface is desert? Deserts actually make up 33%, or 1/3rd of the land’s surface area.
And the idiot researcher say’s that because of climate change up to 30% of earth could become desert?
TWO degrees, Celsius or Fahrenheit, is NOT going to bother anything.
How absolutely silly.
And to post a pic of some desert that already HAS been a desert forever is crap too.
I can post a pic of my yard at springtime too... will that PROVE the entire earth is green?
I’m so sick of this childish one-world government amateur scare show. They’re not even good at telling their lies and fake predictions of doom.
Hang em all.
The earth does not become a desert. Deserts will move. Ice covered areas will turn greener. Rain will show up in places it hadn’t, while other places which had steady rain may not get as much. But the earths winners and losers will be equal. And the planet has been both, much hotter and much colder in the past. And mammals survived both conditions. Also, the world got hotter and colder with and without humans.
6,000 years ago the Sahara Desert was tropical rain forest.
10,000 years ago most of what is now the United States was buried under miles of ice.
The earth’s climate changes. Man can not accelerate or slow this change. What man can do is adapt to those changes.
Anyone that claims that it is the action of man that is creating these changes is a fraud and a con artist.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” - H. L. Mencken
Simplified version.
“The purpose of a politician is to keep the public frightened of an imaginary boogerman that only the politician can protect you from.”
CO2 is .04% of the atmosphere.
It is a trace gas and has no bearing on temperature.
“And what happens if they are wrong?”
Lol!!
If they are wrong, we can be SURE they’ll refund all those extra tax dollars to us average citizens... along with a profuse apology!
We are all going to die! In less than 125 years every man, woman and child now living on Earth will be dead.
Trump’s fault. Womyn and minorities will be hardest hit.
Warmer, with more water available as liquid and vapor. Sounds like it could green up a desert. Heard that was happening on the southern edge of the Sahara.
[it's 'desert'? ooops, never mind]
Also, look closely at that picture. iTs not a desert. Its a dried river bottom. The hills just off the main focus have vegetation. And I kind of think that the photo has taken down the green levels to make it all look like sand. I bet, with normal color, this picture would be far more green in the distance.
Climate Scentists - If you are so sure of your research, and the world is going to end if; I would think you would be investing YOUR OWN MONEY into stopping global warming!
Make a “climate deal” and the Earf is saved. It’s just that simple. ROTFL.
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