Dangerous climate change - is the world on the brink?
Dangerous climate change - is the world on the brink?
- 2005
- ENDS Report (361) February 2005, 17-21(5) .
Reports on the significantly mounting evidence that greenhouse gas emissions will cause serious interference to the global climate, with the possibility of ocean acidification threatening entire marine ecosystems, polar ice caps melting and the Gulf Stream shutting down. Points to an emerging consensus that aglobal temperature increase must be limited to two degrees centigrade and that a concerted and urgent action to halve global emissions by 2050. Outlines a climate choreography for the G8 Summit and lists the key recommendations of the Climate Task Force established in March 2004. Diagram covers predicted changes in the Greenland ice sheet and a graph illustrates vegetation and soil as net carbon sources.
CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS
GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
CLIMATE CHANGE
Reports on the significantly mounting evidence that greenhouse gas emissions will cause serious interference to the global climate, with the possibility of ocean acidification threatening entire marine ecosystems, polar ice caps melting and the Gulf Stream shutting down. Points to an emerging consensus that aglobal temperature increase must be limited to two degrees centigrade and that a concerted and urgent action to halve global emissions by 2050. Outlines a climate choreography for the G8 Summit and lists the key recommendations of the Climate Task Force established in March 2004. Diagram covers predicted changes in the Greenland ice sheet and a graph illustrates vegetation and soil as net carbon sources.
CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS
GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
CLIMATE CHANGE