Comments on: Copenhagen 3: targets and timetables

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Home Page « Less than 2 Degrees — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:08:10 +0000

[...] scientists believe we are already at a level likely to cause 2.0 to 2.4 degrees of warming and we are very close to 400ppm CO2 which brings a 25% chance of exceeding 2 degrees according to [...]

By: Bryan Walker

Bryan Walker — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:15:07 +0000

Sonny, you did miss it , but it's good to have attention drawn to it again and to see your comment on the report.

By: sonnywhitelaw

sonnywhitelaw — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:36:27 +0000

It’s nice to see plain language being used in this.

I’m veering off topic, here, as this is not about NZ (and Gareth may have already posted this and I somehow missed it). The plain language ‘Global Climate Change
Impacts on the United States’ report released by the White House, is available here as a PDF, as well as a 58 minute YouTube synthesis presentation: http://www.globalchange.gov/publications/reports/scientific-assessments/us-impacts

I like that it recognises that a problem of mitigation is that climate change is a moving target . I also like the simple, eloquent phenology graph showing the northward migration of marine species by some 19 miles in the last 35 years (p144).

It’ll be interesting to see how skeptics claim a monumental conspiracy amongst halibut and snow crabs.

Sonny