William Atkins
Thursday, 03 July 2008 23:26
Science -
Climate
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In fact, Macintosh says that the current Australian project to cut greenhouse gases by 60% by the year 2050, still about forty-two years away, will be ineffective to prevent this dangerous level of temperature increase.
These figures are reported in the report by the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The IPCC is a scientific body formed to evaluate the dangers of global climate change caused by human activities.
It was established in 1988 by two United Nation’s organizations: the World Meteorological Organization and the Environment Program.
The First Assessment Report of the IPCC was published in 1990, and later subsequent Assessment Reports were issued in 1995, 2001, and 2007.
According to the ScienceAlert.com.au article “
Greater emission cuts needed,” the Macintosh study suggests that
“global climate change policy must incorporate critical climate-carbon cycle feedback information into the decision making process or run the risk of falling well short of what is required to prevent dangerous climate change….”
The article continues to report that Macintosh
“… says that information from coupled climate-carbon cycle models suggests that the emission cuts that are required to prevent the global average surface temperature increasing by more than 2 - 3ºC above pre-industrial levels are far greater than previously believed.”
What does Macintosh conclude and recommend? Page three says.
