For these regions, current warming, and the further warming (at least 0.5 degree C) guaranteed by CO2 already emitted, constitutes
damaging climate change today.
on 28 August, Dr. John Wright, Director of CSIRO's Energy Transformed Flagship said that the task of avoiding
highly damaging climate change is «absolute immense.»
On any plausible business as usual scenario, emissions will grow substantially, while for any plausible climate science model, we need to reduce emissions substantially if we are to avoid
highly damaging climate change.
The article (PDF) begins with the admission that «Global warming is happening and man is responsible for at least some of it» but CEI proceeds to argue that «There is no «scientific consensus» that global warming will
cause damaging climate change.»
Undoing
the damage climate change and human exploitation has done to Senegal's vast mangroves is proving controversial
Caught in the crosshairs of an ongoing New York Attorney General investigation exploring its role in studying
the damage climate change could cause since the 1970's and then proceeding to fund climate science denial campaigns, ExxonMobil has announced an interesting job opening.
As students, we should be aware of
the damage the climate change brings to our world.
Instead, carbon sequestered from the atmosphere by plants and stored in biomass has value because it provides humanity with at least one key service: mitigation of
damaging climate change.
In the light of evidence since then, he believes his report underestimated
the damages climate change could cause and the speed of that change.