We're pumping out CO2 to the point of no return. It's time to alter course

The Guardian by George Monbiot | Sep. 1, 2009 (Opinion)

Scientists now say peak temperatures will not fall back. Join me in taking the 10:10 pledge – it?s the best shot we?ve got left Until a few months ago, government targets for cutting greenhouse gases at least had the virtue of being wrong. They were the wrong targets, by the wrong dates, and they bore no relationship to the stated aim of preventing more than 2C of global warming. But they used a methodology that even their sternest critics (myself ... Full Story »

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 by Dwight Rousu - Sep. 2, 2009

The topic is arguably more important than any other. Monbiot brings in information of new studies and a new action initiative in Britain.

governments’ hopes about the trajectory of temperature change are ill-founded.

Meinshausen’s carbon budget between now and 2050 will have been exhausted before 2030.

Unless there is a radical change of plan between now and December, world leaders will not only be discussing the alignment of deckchairs on the Titanic, but disputing whose deckchairs they really are and who is responsible for moving them. Fascinating as this argument may be, it does nothing to alter the course of the liner.

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