Trump’s election marks the end of any serious hope of limiting climate change to 2 degrees

dirge Wed Nov 16, 2016 8:34 am

The nations of the world have agreed that allowing global average temperature to rise more than 2 degrees from preindustrial levels would be a disaster — that 2 degrees should be avoided at all costs, and that prudence suggests aiming for closer to 1.5 degrees.

Those targets, agreed upon in December in Paris, are now almost certainly out of reach. The fight to prevent dangerous climate change was lost last night with the election of Donald Trump.

I’m seeing a lot of whistling past the graveyard about this. “The main forces determining emission levels of heat-trapping carbon dioxide will be just as much out of President Trump’s hands as they were out of President Obama’s,” writes New York Times columnist Andy Revkin. There’s only so much damage Trump can do, right? This is bigger than him. Right?
Sorry, but I don’t think so.

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Flap Zappa Wed Nov 16, 2016 9:16 am

there was never any hope of doing that.
the climate will change as the climate wants to.

dirge Wed Nov 16, 2016 10:14 am

Flap Zappa wrote:there was never any hope of doing that.
the climate will change as the climate wants to.

And there you have it.

Dean will like many of us die in numerous decades, so who cares about the future for those we leave behind, when we can do something about the climate change
Luckily we do not have people like you advising.
Another fine example of your selfishness

blackie7 Thu Nov 17, 2016 3:36 am

didge wrote:The nations of the world have agreed that allowing global average temperature to rise more than 2 degrees from preindustrial levels would be a disaster — that 2 degrees should be avoided at all costs, and that prudence suggests aiming for closer to 1.5 degrees.

Those targets, agreed upon in December in Paris, are now almost certainly out of reach. The fight to prevent dangerous climate change was lost last night with the election of Donald Trump.

I’m seeing a lot of whistling past the graveyard about this. “The main forces determining emission levels of heat-trapping carbon dioxide will be just as much out of President Trump’s hands as they were out of President Obama’s,” writes New York Times columnist Andy Revkin. There’s only so much damage Trump can do, right? This is bigger than him. Right?
Sorry, but I don’t think so.

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Again I disagree as temperature changes have gone on for millions of years Dodgy.
Ever the Dinousaurs may have died out because it became too hot for them,we just took shelter from the heat in caves and groomed each other like monkeys do now and some forumers still do LOL!

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