Latest IPCC Report - Emissions Must Start To Fall By 2015 To Avoid 2C+ Increase - Hindustan Times

[hatrack]

Climate experts and representatives from 105 countries on Friday released a 24-page report on means of mitigating the worse impacts of global warming after five days of heated debates to reach a consensus on the document.

The report, which focuses on the economic implications and technological options for tackling global warming, states that emissions must start declining by 2015 to prevent the world's temperature from rising more than two degrees Celsius over pre-industrialised temperatures.

The report also states that the low costs of buying insurance, through the use of technologies currently available, to avoid a climatic catastrophe in the coming decades is less than 0.1 per cent of world GDP per annum.

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The Bangkok meeting of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) attracted 30 of the world's leading climate experts and more than 217 government representatives from 105 countries whose task it is to fine-tune the report, which seeks international consensus on how to reduce greenhouse gases and, perhaps more importantly, how much it would cost. Many climate experts claim that the costs of saving the planet are miniscule compared with global warming's potential damages, but it is important that politicians also acknowledge this in the IPCC's third report of 2007.

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http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=2cf1d2e7-69c6-46ec-95ea-689e3a8c453a&ParentID=7f1d534c-a4b1-47a8-882a-70f2560a47d6&&Headline=World+has+8+years+left+to+save+climate%3A+UN

[bananas]

1. that article is dated May 04, 2007

[kestrel91316]

2. And this is a problem WHY? He didn't post it in LBN.

[bananas]

3. I thought it was a new IPCC report, not the one that came out months ago

I was about to go to the IPCC website when I noticed the date,
and didn't want anyone else to go on a wild goose chase looking for a newer report.

[One_Life_To_Give]

4. Definition of "Start to Fall"?

Seems to be a statement one could drive a truck thru.

Total emissions not rising?
Total emissions not rising faster than GDP?
Total emissions less than 1990?
:shrug: