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posted by chromas on Monday October 08 2018, @10:40AM   Printer-friendly

Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040

A landmark report from the United Nations' scientific panel on climate change paints a far more dire picture of the immediate consequences of climate change than previously thought and says that avoiding the damage requires transforming the world economy at a speed and scale that has "no documented historic precedent."

The report, issued on Monday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of scientists convened by the United Nations to guide world leaders, describes a world of worsening food shortages and wildfires, and a mass die-off of coral reefs as soon as 2040 — a period well within the lifetime of much of the global population.

The report "is quite a shock, and quite concerning," said Bill Hare, an author of previous I.P.C.C. reports and a physicist with Climate Analytics, a nonprofit organization. "We were not aware of this just a few years ago." The report was the first to be commissioned by world leaders under the Paris agreement, the 2015 pact by nations to fight global warming.

The authors found that if greenhouse gas emissions continue at the current rate, the atmosphere will warm up by as much as 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) above preindustrial levels by 2040, inundating coastlines and intensifying droughts and poverty. Previous work had focused on estimating the damage if average temperatures were to rise by a larger number, 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius), because that was the threshold scientists previously considered for the most severe effects of climate change. The new report, however, shows that many of those effects will come much sooner, at the 2.7-degree mark.

Scientists Call for $2.4 Trillion (per year) Shift From Coal to Renewables

The world must invest $2.4 trillion in clean energy every year through 2035 and cut the use of coal-fired power to almost nothing by 2050 to slow the quickest pace of climate change since the end of the last ice age, according to scientists convened by the United Nations.

[...] To limit warming to 1.5 degrees [Celsius] would require a roughly fivefold increase in average annual investment in low-carbon energy technologies by 2050, compared with 2015. The $2.4 trillion needed annually through 2035 is also an almost sevenfold increase from the $333.5 billion Bloomberg NEF estimated was invested in renewable energy last year.

Also at Reuters and CBS.

See also: IPCC climate change report calls for urgent action to phase out fossil fuels - live


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 08 2018, @11:59AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 08 2018, @11:59AM (#745920)

    We know who will benefit from huge investment in renewables: it will be jewish bankers swindling yet more money from their victims in the name of renewables, holocaust etc and middle-men who want a piece of the windfall.

    Look at how most of the money is stolen in natural disasters. Money is donated by good people to help the victims and the khazar jew and his friends take most of it. The criminal jews cause disasters using advanced weather-modifying weapons and then take people's money meant for helping their victims.

    Open your eyes and be careful with the khazar filth. We know you want to help the environment and reverse (some) bad effects of climate change, but keep an eye on who is causing all this and who benefited from it. Do not give money to jewish rats either through business or aid.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Monday October 08 2018, @12:19PM (1 child)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday October 08 2018, @12:19PM (#745924) Journal

    The criminal jews cause disasters using advanced weather-modifying weapons

    Any technical details on these weapons? In particular, what's their power output? Seems to me that if you want hurricanes on demand, you need something that can generate power output at least within a few orders of magnitude of a hurricane (which let us note releases 200 times [noaa.gov] the total human consumption of energy at peak).

    And googling for "khazar jew" releases yet a new variant of crazy. Now that Muslims are another out group, it was only a matter of time till someone neatly tied all the out groups into one blob.

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 08 2018, @03:52PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 08 2018, @03:52PM (#745993)

      In particular, what's their power output?

      Their output is measured in "clouds". That's why "the cloud" was turned into a marketing term several years ago. It was all premeditated.

      There's no way to use a search engine looking for "cloud" without getting buried in millions of results for cloud-based services. It was ingenious and it worked like a charm.

      Good luck finding the truth you seek. Perhaps one day you will be lying in a field and see the answer in a cloud.