Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Scientists met last week in Geneva, to try to work out how to save the world – but likely more meetings at exotic locations will be required.
OSLO (Reuters) – Scientists on Thursday set the outlines of a report on how to restrict global warming to a limit agreed last year by world leaders – even though the temperature threshold is at risk of being breached already.
The U.N.-led study, due to be published in 2018 as a guide for governments, will look into ways of cutting greenhouse gas emissions to cap the rise at 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels.
It will examine impacts of a 1.5C rise on vulnerable parts of the world including Greenland’s ice sheet and coral reefs.
Thelma Krug, a Brazilian scientist who led the four-day meeting in Geneva, said it will also cast the fight against climate change as part of a wider struggle to end poverty and ensure sustainable growth.
“Rapid changes are needed for (no rise above) 1.5C,” she told Reuters.
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The Geneva meeting was scheduled at the meeting in Nairobi in April this year, at which it was agreed to select 70 experts to prepare a special report.
… The IPCC was invited to prepare this Special Report by the 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Paris in December 2015. The Conference reached an agreement to limit the increase in global average temperature to well below 2ºC above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5ºC. The Special Report, which the IPCC agreed to produce at its last Session in April held in Nairobi, will provide an evaluation of the scientific state of knowledge of this topic in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty.
The report will be delivered in 2018, in time for a “facilitative dialogue” that will take place that year to take stock of progress under the Paris Agreement. …
Read more: http://newsroom.unfccc.int/paris-agreement/strong-interest-for-new-ipcc-special-report/
I can’t find any of these meetings on the UNFCCC calendar, but I suppose when you have so many jetset climate events being scheduled, a gathering of a mere 70 climate scientists and assistants, or non UNFCC climate events such as the 2017 Boston US China Climate Summit, just don’t make it to the main list.
As for that effort to eradicate poverty – a good start might be to teach climate scientists how to use Skype.
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The UN has out lived it’s usefulness.There was always a danger that it would be captured by it’s less savory members. Nuclear weapons prevented a general conflagration while local conflicts have multipled. I can envision a sustainable free world without the UN. I can also envison the UN playing a villains role in the demise of representative democracy. Let’s scrap it and donate the budget to the sainted poor.
The UN was never anything more than a fanciful dream by the terminally clueless. By it’s very design, it never had any usefulness in the first place.
The absurd fly around the world to talk endless about nonsense is a symptom of the true problem.
It is impossible to address any problem(s) when the science, economics (we have run out of money to spend on everything – currency collapse is the next stage in the sad process – so there is no money to waste on green scams that do not work to address a problem that does not exist), and engineering is all incorrect.
The majority of the recent rise in atmospheric CO2 was due to natural sources, not anthropogenic sources and the majority of the warming in the last 150 years was due to solar cycle changes.
If the cult of CAGW idiots were genuinely interested in helping to abolishing poverty they would support the lending of money to construct coal fired power plants in impoverished regions such as the entire African continent.
The long term energy solution is nuclear power not intermittent ‘green’ energy.
The practical Russians who must make due with less, continue to make real scientific and engineering progress.
http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/08/russia-will-build-11-additional-nuclear.html
make do
heat management
Haven’t you heard? Even the internet causes global warming…
Oh and Troe I’ve been advocating the UN in NY be turned into a homeless shelter for years…
When you know you may be wrong, when you doubt what you advance, when your conscience nudges you awake at night, you need reinforcement from friends……………..thus the need for another symposium, convention. meeting……whatever you want to call it. Fortified with liquor on somebody else’s tab you return home ready to carry on the “good” fight.
Brazil is already killing the world single handedly….from pollution.
“including Greenland’s ice sheet and coral reefs.”
Just how many coral reefs does Greenland have?
“the fight against climate change as part of a wider struggle to end poverty”
Lets make fight poverty by making energy expensive and unreliable.
That’s the ticket.
The fight against poverty is IMPORTANT! It is NOT important to WIN that fight – just to fight. After all how can we hope to get increases in budgets and travel allowance if we actually WIN? That would go against the first law of bureaucracy – which is to perpetuate itself.
Geeeez, everyone has the wrong idea about doing away with poverty – that is NOT a desirable outcome.
[sarc for those who need such things explained]