Sentences with phrase «drastic emissions cuts needed»

Posted in Global Warming, Green House Gas Emissions Comments Off on Draft UN Support Says Drastic Emissions Cuts Needed By 2050 To Curb Global Warming

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In a conference call Monday, Hansen said that if scientists don't come out and say that drastic emissions cuts are needed, «then politicians will tell you what's needed and that will be based on the politics, rather than on science.

But the next round of negotiations for the second phase of the Kyoto Protocol, covering the period after 2012 will start next month in Bali and governments will need to decide who must commit to drastic emission cuts to save the world from climate change.

It's really kind of a sliding scale - if we start today, we'd need less drastic cuts and we'd have more time to hit a given emissions target.