…the world heated up by 6 degrees:
…(it) would have irreversible consequences, rendering large parts of the globe uninhabitable and destroying much of life on earth.
And what if the Earth collided with another planet? That wouldn’t be good either.
The study by Professor Corinne Le Quere, from the British Antarctic Survey and East Anglia University, is the most comprehensive so far of how economic changes and shifts in the way people used land over the past 50 years have affected CO2 concentration in the atmosphere.
Who says it is the most comprehensive, bestest, most awesome study ever in the entire history of the world? The East Anglia University press release, so dutifully repeated without question by the Daily Telegraph. Scared yet? Well get ready to burnrnrnrn!
The temperature rise was made public by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007, when it was then only a worst-case scenario.
But according to Professor Le Quere it is now all but inevitable.
Great, so why waste valuable resources on an ETS when we could use those resources to adapt to the impending and inevitable burning? Funny how the study comes out right before the meeting in Copenhagen. Geee, I wonder if these lobbyists come scientists are trying to pressure anyone, or was it just by coincidence that study was completed at this time?