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Re: This is Why Scientists Have Hope For the Climate

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is Why Scientists Have Hope For the Climate
>> http://www.climatecentral.org/news/scientists-climate-hope-19838
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>> What's the biggest reason to be hopeful about the climate at the end
>> of 2015?
>>
>> David Titley, director of Penn State?s Center for Solutions to
>> Weather and Climate Risk: Paris, of course, but more substantively
>> for the U.S. domestic movement is the sense more and more different
>> groups are seeing climate change as an issue within their domain: big
>> business, insurance and finance, multiple major religions, the
>> divestment movement, health, national security, movies, and the
>> media, as well as the traditional science and environmental
>> communities. Ultimately, we have to have enough people care enough to
>> get Congress to engage constructively and move both policies and
>> money to transition our energy systems to non-carbon based forms as
>> quickly as possible. Huge task, but if we?re focused we can do this.
>>
>>
>> Richard Somerville, professor emeritus at Scripps Institution of
>> Oceanography: The biggest reason to be hopeful about the climate at
>> the end of 2015 is the Paris Agreement reached in December 2015 at
>> the COP21 negotiations in Paris. This agreement provides a roadmap to
>> reducing the risk of dangerous climate change. However, when all is
>> said and done, sometimes more is said than done, and the future of
>> the climate system depends on the degree to which nations obey the
>> letter and spirit of this roadmap and work to improve it.
>>
>> Marshall Shepherd, director of atmospheric sciences at the University
>> of Georgia: I am encouraged that the notion that climate change is a
>> political issue is starting to erode. Key conservatives, major
>> corporations, the military and faith communities recognize the
>> challenges and opportunities. The recent Paris agreement is a bold
>> step. It isn?t perfect, but it is an important signal.
>>
>> Simon Donner, climate scientist at the University of British
>> Columbia: We've thrown down the gauntlet. In Paris, the world agreed
>> that greenhouse gas emissions must reach net zero during the second
>> half of the century to avoid dangerous impacts from climate change.
>> With global emissions peaking this year, and wind and solar prices at
>> all time lows, there's hope we can meet the ambition of Paris with
>> action.
>>
 
The Paris Agreement is meaningless.

The climate is just fine.

2015 produced a record European wheat crop for the second year in a row.

 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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This is Why Scientists Have Hope For the Climate Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-24 14:58 -0600
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