The CO2 equivalent of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere already exceeded 390
ppm million (NOAA) has (with a total of "long-term" greenhouse gas more than 455 parts
per million). (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report) This stage is considered to
be a turning point.
"The amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is already emerging that could
potentially cause dangerous climate change. We are already at risk ... It's not next year or
next decade, it is now. "(Tim Flannery, climate change expert) (1), (2).
Scientist Chris Field from the IPCC says that the current trajectory of climate change was now
much worse than the IPCC originally planned in part by China and India's growing
dependence on coal-fired plants.
Research shows that CO2 emissions have increased since 2000, despite growing concerns
about climate change greatly. During the 1990s, CO2 emissions grew by less than 1% per
year. Since 2000, emissions of 3.5% per year are grown. No part of the world had a decline
in emissions from 2000 to 2008.
Chris Field told the American Association for the Advancement of Science:
"We are basically a future climate of everything, we have to model climate situations
considered seriously, look at now." (Interview) report from the International Energy Agency,
in 2011, global emissions reached a record.
"When I look at these data, the trend is perfectly in line with a rise in temperature of 6
degrees Celsius (2050), which would have devastating consequences for the planet." IEA chief
economist Fatih Birol,
Report from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
"climate disasters are on the rise. About 70 percent of disasters are now climate related -
about 50 percent two decades ago.
These disasters a heavy human toll and come with a higher price. In the last decade, 2.4
billion people were affected, compared the climate related disasters, to1.7 billion in the past
decade. The cost of responding to disasters rose tenfold from 1992 to 2008.
This is indeed good news!
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