PROBLEM:
Avoid the temperature increase plus two degrees
Celsius is not enough, concluded Dr. James
Hansen, climate change expert and former NASA
scientist. As explained in their study published
in the journal European Geoscience Union, two
degrees over global warming could be
catastrophic for humanity, because in just 50
years, the sea level will rise 3-8 meters.
The
situation had already lived before. The evidence
indicates that an increase in temperature of
just 1 degree Celsius, came to raise sea level
between 4 and 9 meters, which in turn led to
extreme storms will form over a thousand years
ago.
Through
the publication, Hansen and the 16 co-authors,
have made an appeal to politicians, as in 2009,
world leaders pledged under the Copenhagen
Accord, not to let the temperature to rise more
than two degrees . Which, apparently, is not
enough.
In
recent research, Hansen and co-author Makiko
Sato, also from GISS compared the climate of
today, the Holocene, with a similar period of
interglacial periods - periods when the polar
ice caps exist but the world was dominated by
glaciers.
Studying
corals drilled ice sheets and deep ocean
sediments, Hansen found that global mean
temperatures during the Eemian, which began
130,000 years ago and lasted about 15,000 years,
were less degree warmer than today.
If
temperatures to rise 2 ° C over pre-industrial
times, the average global temperature could far
exceed that of the Eemian, when sea level was
four to six meters higher than today, Hansen
said.
The
IPCC projects an increase of 2 ° C and rising
ocean levels 1 meter end of the century, but the
recent report by former NASA scientist, Dr.
James Hansen says that with only 1 ° C over the
waters will rise up 8 meters, at the latest
within 50 years. He justifies this with what
happened in the Eemian, 100,000 years ago.
"To
overcome this new picture of the situation,
which puts us in" planetary emergency
"they lack capital intensive, such as
mobilized during World War II. The message is
that, free, will not solve environmental
problems. In that sense from GSI propose the
Green Solidarity Fund 2% of global GDP, annually,
to meet this demand, or the option of Planetary
Army saving $ 1 trillion per year, among all
countries that adhere to the new coalition. It
has been created extraordinary a situation that
requires extraordinary resources. The cost is
two billion dollars a year. Either this, or
chaos within two decades. Consider that only the
United States has 1,700 coastal locations. The
main cities of the world are coastal and
including hundreds of millions of people live.
When flooded where will they go? What eat? What
drink? Where did they sleep? This is a question
of survival and pure logic. Do you have or do
not have reason Dr. Hansen ? ".
SOLUTION:
Global Solidarity Fund proposes the Solidarity
Green 2% of global GDP annually. With these
funds, equivalent to $ 2 trillion, they will
plant 20 billion trees per year to capture CO2,
invest in fusion reactors and clean energy
systems, changing vehicles combustion engines by
electric and hydrogen addition 25% to end hunger,
pandemics and extreme poverty, creating
conditions for a world with less inequality will
go.
INVITATION:
Your community may join Coastal Cities Against
Climate Change, with the island nations that
make up the areas to be mostly impacted by
global warming and participate in block to
petition the United Nations for the immediate
implementation of the Green Solidarity Fund ,
only rational solution to return to 350 ppm of
free CO2 in our atmosphere and return the entire
ecosystem to its former point of balance and
sustainability. If you choose not to participate
they are choosing to leave their properties in a
few years ahead, when the oceans rise inevitably,
because we do not take the right decisions on
time.
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