Daily we are getting new scientific publications and data confirming that the world is getting hotter, that it is human activity that is driving it and that unless we take action to stop it right now the outcome for humanity, biodiversity and nature will be catastrophic.
In fact they are able charge a fortune for that warming effect and lots of households are willing to pay for it. So it should come as no surprise to us really that gases do trap extra heat. What might come as surprise to many people, however, is just how little carbon dioxide and other green house gases it takes to trap heat.
It is colourless. It is odourless. It is tasteless. But it is lethal. We have been behaving for a century and a half as if carbon dioxide didn’t matter. We have pumped more and more of it into the atmosphere to power our factories, our homes, our cars, food production and every single aspect our lives. The burning of fossil fuels has driven the level of CO2 in our atmosphere up by 43%.
However achieving that would mean the rate at which we are planning to reduce greenhouse gas emission would need to more double by 2030 and net carbon emissions would have to be eliminated entirely by 2050.
GeorgeLeeRTE There is concept of a carbon budget....At present global consumption reach the 1.5C tipping point in 8 years...Then things become difficult to reverse with climate...Run out of budget like a houshold would...There is countdown clock in Berlin....Think.it is all very alarmist....
GeorgeLeeRTE Start by getting rte staff and politicians to walk and cycle to work before ye start trying to make others take the blame