The conference comes on the heels of recent optimism about
the possibility of a global deal, thanks to a November agreement on emissions reductions by the U.S. and China, the world's top emitters of greenhouse gases.
Not exact matches
The second lecture
deals with the impacts
of climate change (with a focus on extreme events and sea - level rise) and the
possibilities for holding
global warming below 2 °C.
Many GW savvy people around the world are now focusing on the
possibility of runaway GW, now that knowledge and proof
of «regular»
global warming is a done
deal.
Though the grand exercise
of managing expectations regarding the
possibility of actually getting a
global climate
deal signed at the COP15 talks has been going on for a couple months now, here are the latest examples
The other thing that I think is really important to watch is the
possibility of a climate
deal with China, and that could be really, really important, because you've basically got the two climate change superpowers finally coming together on this, and if they created some kind
of an agreement to limit emissions, even that could have the de facto effect
of creating a
global carbon price.
Distorting subsidies not only do damage economic now, they strangle any
possibility of dealing logically with new challenges like resource depletion and
global warming.
To my mind the
possibility, which certainly has a great
deal of at least circumstantial evidence behind it, that humans are causing
global warming is enough to suggest that we should cease the behaviors that have the potential
of destroying our planet.
The film portrays Monckton single - handedly attacking the entire
global scientific establishment, sabotaging any
possibility of climate legislation in the USA, and thereby demolishing any possible
global deal on emissions - reduction through the UNFCCC process.