Environmentalists Renew Call to Reduce GHGs to 350 PPM

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Monday, October 04, 2010 at 2:07 pm

On the first day of United Nations climate change talks in Tianjin, China, environmentalists released a report calling for world leaders to commit to lowering global atmospheric carbon dioxide levels to 350 parts per million.

The 350 ppm goal has become something of a rallying cry for environmentalists — so much so that one group, 350.org, has been formed specifically to advocate it. Many scientists say that countries must commit to lowering CO2 levels from 392 ppm to 350 ppm to avoid catastrophic climate change.

But it seems unlikely that countries will commit to such a goal any time soon, given that talks in Tianjin, as well as December talks in Cancun, are not expected to result in a binding climate treaty. The report, released by the Center for Biological Diversity and 350.org, acknowledges that reducing emissions to these levels could be an uphill battle:

There are viable options now to begin achieving this ambitious goal but enacting them will require bold, willful steps from world leaders.

Nonetheless, the environmentalists are calling for the adoption of a plan put forward by climate scientist and activist James Hansen.

The 350-ppm-by-2100 plan can be achieved by reducing global greenhouse gas pollution to 42 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. It also requires dramatic reductions in fossil fuel emissions; carbon sequestration; and an end to large-scale deforestation.

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Comment posted October 4, 2010 @ 7:36 pm

CAP AND TRADE IS A MONEY GRAB. GLOBAL WARMING IS A FRAUD.

Nature adds 150 billion tons of Carbon Dioxide to the atmosphere each year. Man 5-6 billion

http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/nowarm.htm .

Do those who believe in Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) actually believe that their is no money behind the reports that global warming is caused by man? Follow the money.

http://us-aaa.com/2010/08/obamas-connections-with-shorebank-cap-trade/

Currently dollars are spent to the tune of 99-1 on pro-warming research. Its funny how the religion of global warming are the first to say that those who doubt man's affect on climate are being funded by oil companies. Because in fact, reports that are Pro GW are being funded by either those with interests in carbon trading or those who stand to lose billions if global warming is not true. Newsflash for the Cult of AGW, Pro-AGW research is never done for free. There are companies out there willing to pay billions to make domestic policy favor their companies.

Meet the man who wrote the book that will change forever the way we think about climate change. Anthropogenic global warming (AGW) theory, he argues, is the biggest, most dangerous and ruinously expensive con trick in history.

http://www.spectator.co.uk/essays/all/3755623/meet-the-man-who-has-exposed-the-great-climate-change-con-trick.thtml

And they will silence any critics, while fudging scientific data and not allowing anyone to review their material. Professor Phil Jones, a global warming advocate whose observations has fueled world-wide efforts to curb carbon emissions, has made a number of startling admissions that will surely undermine the entire issue of climate change. //http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2701183/phil_jones_global_warming_science_not.html?cat=15

They just tell us its necessary to transfer trillions of dollars in taxpayer money to fat cats, warlords and dictators in order to save the world. Oh….and China doesn't have to abide by the rules either.

The UN commission on global warming states that NATURE put 150 Billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere… while MAN made carbon dioxide is only 5-6 billion tons. Maybe we should tax mother nature to slow emissions. As the Earth warms, plant life increases, especially ocean algae, which increases carbon dioxide absorption, reversing any warming cycle to a cooling cycle. This has been going on for hundreds of millions of years . It has resulted in an ice age. It is a natural phenomena. Man is too insignificant to be able to effect the climate.

This is a boondoggle to transfer money from the middle class utility bills to the fat cats! And they have us BEGGING them to take our money..


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