This prestigious world-wide recognized agency, the IEA, calmly says we are creating an "un-live-able" world, using words like: "business-as-usual" and "widely accepted" by "scientists
and governments".
This is a rare description of how man himself is creating apocalyptic monsters that destroy our world, and he doesn't seem to need God to dig his own grave.
This is a rare description of how man himself is creating apocalyptic monsters that destroy our world, and he doesn't seem to need God to dig his own grave.
World has five years to
avoid severe warming: IEA
By Marlowe Hood, AFP, Nov. 9, 2011
The world has just five years to avoid being trapped in a scenario of perilous climate change and extreme weather events, the International Energy Agency (IEA) warned on Wednesday.
The world has just five years to avoid being trapped in a scenario of perilous climate change and extreme weather events, the International Energy Agency (IEA) warned on Wednesday.
On current trends, “rising fossil energy use will lead to irreversible
and potentially catastrophic climate change,” the IEA concluded in its annual
World Energy Outlook report.
“The door to 2.0 C is closing,” it said, referring to the 2.0
Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) cap on global warming widely accepted by scientists
and governments as the ceiling for averting unmanageable climate damage.
Without further action, by 2017 the total CO2 emissions compatible with
the 2.0 C goal will be “locked in” by power plants, factories and other
carbon-emitting sources either built or planned, the IEA said.
To meet energy needs while still averting climate catastrophe,
governments must engineer a shift away from carbon-intensive fossil fuels, the
agency said bluntly.
Business-as-usual emissions would put the world “on an even more
dangerous track toward an increase of 6.0 C (10.8 F),” the report
says.
Scientists who have modelled the impacts on biodiversity, agriculture
and human settlement say a 6 C world would be close to unlivable due to
violent extremes of drought, flooding, heatwaves and storms.
The planet’s average temperature has risen by about 1.0 C
(1.8 F) over the last century, with forecasts for future warming ranging
from an additional 1.0 C to 5.0 C (9.0 F) by 2100.
