IPCC Chair: Ready To "Pass On A Lousy, Spoilt & Defiled Planet"? Survey Says . . . YES!

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What is your response to those who are still claiming climate change is not an issue despite the latest IPCC report?

The projections of the IPCC working group report are very, very clear. The impacts are going to become progressively negative and they're going to be the worst for some of the most underprivileged societies on earth.

Are we going to create a planet where there's tension, where there's conflict, where there's desperation? That's not going to help any one of us. Are we going to see islands disappear? Are we going to see agriculture and food systems being affected, human health being affected? So the evidence and the scientific assessment is so compelling; how can anyone close his or her eyes against that reality?

Can you remind us of the scale of the dangers you believe we face?

If we don't do anything about the problem and we continue on the uppermost scenario that we have evaluated, then you get sea level rise of almost a metre, 0.98 metres. Now that's bad news for countries like the Maldives, several of the small island states in the Pacific, a large part of the coastal area of Bangladesh not to speak of locations in North America.

If you look at the temperature increase; suppose you hit 4.8 degrees Celsius, now that's disastrous because anything exceeding 1.5 to 2.5 degrees Celsius means that 20% to 30% of the species that we assessed could be under threat of extinction.

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http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/ippc-pachauri-climate-change-spoilt-defiled-planet

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1. Pachauri thinks "reason" will save us;

cause us to mend our feckless ways in time to avert The Carbon Apocalypse. Where do you suppose he got that notion?.