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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAct Now, Urges Study, or Planet Faces 10,000+ Years of Climate Doom
Last edited Mon Feb 8, 2016, 06:29 PM - Edit history (1)
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/08/act-now-urges-study-or-planet-faces-10000-years-climate-doom"The next few decades offer a brief window of opportunity to minimize large-scale and potentially catastrophic climate change that will extend longer than the entire history of human civilization thus far."
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Lauren McCauley, staff writer
The actions that policymakers take in the next couple of years will have "profound impacts on global climate, ecosystems and human societies" for the next 10,000 years and beyond, warns a new report that examines the long-term consequences of the so called "fossil fuel era."
The agreement hashed out at the COP21 Paris climate talks "leaves a lot of leeway" for countries to postpone making critical cuts to their emission outputs"more than the climate system allows," said report co-author Patrik Pfister from the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of Bern.
The study, published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change and last month in the open-access journal Environmental Research Letters, warns that delaying global carbon emission reductions by even ten years will have a profound impact on long-term "Earth system variables," such as peak atmospheric warming, sea level rise (SSLR), and ocean acidification.
"Most of the policy debate surrounding the actions needed to mitigate and adapt to anthropogenic climate change has been framed by observations of the past 150 years as well as climate and sea-level projections for the twenty-first century," the report states. "The focus on this 250-year window, however, obscures some of the most profound problems associated with climate change."
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Act Now, Urges Study, or Planet Faces 10,000+ Years of Climate Doom (Original Post)
G_j
Feb 2016
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G_j
(40,367 posts)1. and not a single question about climate change
put to the GOP candidates..
Octafish
(55,745 posts)2. Seeing how the GOP has done nothing more than block environmental progress...
That would be a great subject for discussion. Who knows? An intrepid reporter might even know enough to ask a follow-up question.
G_j
(40,367 posts)3. that would be logical
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lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)5. I hate to say it, but it's not likely to happen.
All the people with any influence are making too much money off of trashing our planet right now.