Shifting goal posts: We have until 2050 to cut emissions, says U.N. draft; LOL, look, just round it off at 2100 and be done with it

If humanity is to escape the worst effects of the global warming already being felt on every continent, we must by mid-century achieve deep reductions of greenhouse gas emissions of 40 to 70 percent, a United Nations report says.

Shifting goal posts: We have until 2050 to cut emissions, says U.N. draft; LOL, look, just round it off at 2100 and be done with it Global-warming-in-2010

Shifting goal posts: We have until 2050 to cut emissions, says U.N. draft; LOL, look, just round it off at 2100 and be done with it Global-warming-in-2010

Current national commitments to control such emissions will be insufficient to hold warming at 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels, a draft of the U.N. report obtained by Reuters said.

The 2-degree ceiling was set by the U.N. in 2010 with hopes it could stave off or at least ameliorate heat waves, storms, floods and rising sea levels caused by global warming.

The draft report was created using three science reports commissioned by the U.N. over the last year intended to provide data to world governments set to meet in Paris in 2015 to hammer out a new agreement on cooperative efforts to address climate change.

"Deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions to limit warming to 2 degrees C ... remain possible, yet will entail substantial technological, economic, institutional, and behavioral challenges," the report said.

Such cuts from 2010 levels would have to be attained by 2050 if the world is to hold the increase to the 2 degree C level, the draft prepared by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded.

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/12460/20140807/we-have-until-2050-to-cut-emissions-says-u-n-draft.htm

Shifting goal posts: We have until 2050 to cut emissions, says U.N. draft; LOL, look, just round it off at 2100 and be done with it

Shifting goal posts: We have until 2050 to cut emissions, says U.N. draft; LOL, look, just round it off at 2100 and be done with it

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