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Re: Scientists See U.N. Climate Accord As A Good Start, But Just A Start

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Scientists See U.N. Climate Accord As A Good Start, But Just A Start
>> http://www.npr.org/2015/12/15/459693015/scientists-see-u-n-climate-accord-as-a-good-start-but-just-a-start
> 
> 
>> Climate researchers' dire warnings about global warming helped spur
>> negotiators to draft this unprecedented international agreement,
>> which commits both rich and poor countries to rein in greenhouse gas
>> emissions in the coming decades.
>>
>> Some scientists now say they feel relief that the world is finally
>> taking climate change seriously.
>>
>> "The accord signals that the world really gets it," says Jerry
>> Melillo, who studies the impact of climate change with the Marine
>> Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass. "The world understands
>> that climate change is a serious issue and, if left unchecked will
>> have catastrophic consequences for society."
>>
>> Melillo was particularly struck by the debate over whether to aim for
>> cap of 2 degrees Celsius in the average increase in global
>> temperature, or to try to keep global warming lower ? below 1.5
>> degrees Celsius. "This says to me that the world understands that we
>> have to do as much as possible, as soon as possible," he says.
>>
>> But not everyone was so impressed by that debate over temperature
>> targets.
>>
>> "There was a tremendous amount of discussion about [whether to have]
>> a target of 1.5 degrees as opposed to 2 degrees,'" says Kevin
>> Trenberth, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric
>> Research in Boulder, Colorado. "Without saying how you're going to
>> achieve things, I think we will actually blow right through both of
>> those things."

The "U.N. Climate Accord" was a colossal waste of time an money and
is meaningless.
 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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Scientists See U.N. Climate Accord As A Good Start, But Just A Start Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-15 10:19 -0600
  Re: Scientists See U.N. Climate Accord As A Good Start, But Just A Start Jürgen Großenbach <jurgengb@adenauer.org> - 2015-12-15 16:26 +0000
  Re: Scientists See U.N. Climate Accord As A Good Start, But Just A Start Jürgen Großenbach <jurgengb@adenauer.org> - 2015-12-15 16:43 +0000
    Re: Scientists See U.N. Climate Accord As A Good Start, But Just A Start Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-15 10:47 -0600
      Re: Scientists See U.N. Climate Accord As A Good Start, But Just A Start gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com> - 2015-12-15 10:57 -0600
  Re: Scientists See U.N. Climate Accord As A Good Start, But Just A Start gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com> - 2015-12-15 10:48 -0600
  Re: Scientists See U.N. Climate Accord As A Good Start, But Just A Start jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-12-15 20:17 +0000

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