20 Nobel prize-winning scientists, economists declare 6 years Left to prevent Dangerous Global warming
Isaac Hayes - 29 May 2009At the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen it was agreed to halve greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050 to stop temperatures from increasing by more than 2C. “Unmanageable” climate risks would most likely take place if even a 2C temperature rise were to happen, thus Carbon Emissions must start falling in 2015.
If emissions continue to rise after that date, the required cuts would become unachievable. Simply the World is facing a crisis as bad as the 1950s - 60s arms race and the Cold War notion of mutually assured destruction, just that today it won’t be Nuclear weapons but Greenhouse gases.
Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and Professor Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York says that by 2030, the number of annual deaths directly resulting from the warming global climate will rise to 500,000.
The current economic crisis gives the world a chance at all levels of government to seize hold of this historic opportunity to transform our carbon-intensive economies into sustainable and equitable systems.
