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When it comes to purging fossil fuels from the global economy by mid-century—our only hope of staving off catastrophic climate change—it turns out that you can't get there from here without a good map.
That's the thinking behind detailed, long-term plans for switching from dirty to clean energy unveiled this week by the United States, Canada, Mexico and Germany at UN climate talks in Marrakesh.
Overcoming sharp internal debate, the German government led the way with sector-by-sector scenarios that would remove up to 95 percent of its CO2 emissions by 2050, compared to 1990 levels.
Green groups said there were too many sops to big business, but it was a world-first.
The "three amigos" of North America jointly-released their blueprints on Wednesday, with the 100-page US "mid-century strategy" for the globe's largest economy taking centre stage.
If the US, Canada, and Mexico are the "three amigos," which one is Martin Short?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday November 20 2016, @03:22PM
Getting back on track, evidence for the "accelerated modern human-induced species loss" is the human-induced climate changes that have indeed happened, and are happening.
Let us note that habitat destruction which is a widely ignored form of climate change is far more likely to result in species extinction than climate change from green house gases emissions. This is the the ill focus that ruins the climate change debate: citing the problems of global warming while completely ignoring bigger problems like habitat and arable land destruction, poverty, overpopulation, societal corruption, etc. Sure, things are made a little bit better by addressing global warming. Things are made vastly better by addressing these other matters, even if one ignores global warming outright.
(Score: 2) by dlb on Sunday November 20 2016, @03:51PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 20 2016, @10:48PM
I expect synergy: wildlife in isolated pockets will be hindered from migrating as the Earth heats up.