Climate experts slam G8 deal on emissions

[Ediacara]

Source: The Globe and Mail

JEFF MASON AND ALISTER DOYLE
Reuters
June 7, 2007 at 1:33 PM EDT

HEILIGENDAMM, Germany — World leaders revived hopes for a long-term United Nations deal to fight climate change on Thursday but experts branded their targets for cutting emissions as toothless.

A G8 summit in Germany agreed to seek "substantial" but undefined cuts in emissions as a step towards slowing global warming after the United States blocked European hopes of agreeing a target of 50 percent cuts from 1990 levels by 2050.

"Without a time frame, the cuts don't mean anything," said Bert Metz, a Dutch climate expert who chaired a U.N. report this year about the likely costs of adapting to climate change.

He said that world emissions of greenhouse gases, mainly from burning fossil fuels, had to peak in the next 10-25 years to avoid the worst effects of climate change which experts say will bring more floods, droughts and rising seas.

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[lovuian]

1. Its a bad joke

Mother Nature will take care of the problem

it so sad to see that man is creating his own destruction

It reminds me of Atlantis

its technology killed itself

[Lorien]

2. At this rate we'll never make it to 2050. n/t

[bemildred]

3. They agreed to do nothing, again. nt

[Art_from_Ark]

5. What else can one expect from a photo-op gathering

dominated by right-wingers?

[rodeodance]

4. dam!