How many climate deadlines and incontrovertible tipping points have been noisily proclaimed over the years, only to be quietly forgotten or shamelessly rescheduled, when the deadline passes uneventfully?
The Earth League, a group composed mostly of climate personalities nobody has never heard of, have just extended the green point of no return to 2040 – a whopping 25 years from today.
According to their “Earth Statement“;
2015 is a critical year for humanity. Our civilization has never faced such existential risks as those associated with global warming, biodiversity erosion and resource depletion. Our societies have never had such an opportunity to advance prosperity and eradicate poverty. … This includes additional public funding for mitigation and adaptation at a level at least comparable to current global ODA (around 135 billion USD p.a.).
Read more: http://earthstatement.org
OK, I kind of glossed over a lot of their statement, but I think I have captured the essentials. And that extended deadline for the new green point of no return?
… With current emissions trends, the remaining 1000 Gt CO2 [in their estimated global carbon budget] would be used up within the next 25 years. …
The rescheduled 2040 tipping point, intriguingly, ties in nicely with the Chinese non-commitment to consider reducing CO2 in 2030.
I haven’t spotted any mention of the “N” word on the Earth League website. For all the Earth League’s claims of being deeply concerned about the planet, nuclear power, which former NASA GIS Chairman James Hansen recently warned is the only credible route to decarbonising the global economy, doesn’t even seem to rate a mention.
“OK, I kind of glossed over a lot of their statement..”
Maybe Brother Eric ought to bother reading stuff before he tries to lead us Villagers up the garden path with it..
Check out the latest I saw this morning :http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/environment/10-chance-of-scorched-earth-experts-1.1848693#.VTiujiFVhBc
Exhilarating rubbish at its best. Comedians desperately trying to be taken seriously.
Reblogged this on Utopia – you are standing in it!.
Just normal pratice for an area that consider ‘heads you lose tails I win’ to be an acceptable scientific pratice.
So, “climate”, or weather, will be different in the future than today? Is that the message?
How long….How long, to the point of nor return?
The Point of Know Return – Kansas 1977
https://youtu.be/trMBPFp_2Q0
Fernando Leanme
April 23, 2015 at 4:29 am
Synthetic fuels are extremely expensive. And we lack the natural gas and coal to take up the load. We have a growing population, increasing world GDP, and a limited amount of resources we can tap.
The technologies we need aren’t available, or are incredibly expensive.
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Sorry, not state of the art. The omniscient landfill of knowledge aka Wikipedia says:
>>The U.S. government launched a major (and largely secret) effort to improve synthetic rubber production. A large team of chemists from many institutions were involved, including Calvin Souther Fuller of Bell Labs. The rubber designated GRS (Government Rubber Styrene), a copolymer of butadiene and styrene, was the basis for U.S. synthetic rubber production during World War II. By 1944, a total of 50 factories were manufacturing it, pouring out a volume of the material twice that of the world’s natural rubber production before the beginning of the war. It still represents about half of total world production.<<
We do have coal in abundance. And the free market will see the price won't soar.
To have any credibility, let’s look at their predictions from 25 years ago and see how good they were. Otherwise not buying
so then is it on the same schedule as planetx? Everytime their end of the world deadline passes they extend the forecast as well. I give the warmers the same credibility. The anti continuing evolution crowd will eventually have to get over the fact that “the climate” depends more on when and where then a computer model can ever predict.