GayandRight

My name is Fred and I am a gay conservative living in Ottawa. This blog supports limited government, the right of the State of Israel to live in peace and security, and tries to expose the threat to us all from cultural relativism, post-modernism, and radical Islam. I am also the founder of the Free Thinking Film Society in Ottawa (www.freethinkingfilms.com)

Friday, May 02, 2008

The world will NOT cut CO2 emissions....

Every time someone forecasts CO2 emissions, they just go up.....why the charade in trying to reduce them???
GLOBAL greenhouse-gas emissions will almost double by 2030, a rate much faster than previously predicted, according to a paper co-written by the Federal Government's top climate change adviser.

A draft of the unpublished paper co-written by Professor Ross Garnaut says rapid economic growth in China is fuelling the increase and calls for developing countries to commit to binding emissions reduction targets to avoid such a "bleak" outcome.

The 2030 business-as-usual forecast is 11 per cent higher than the worst-case scenario developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The paper predicts the world reaching a level of emissions 20 years earlier than that predicted by the groundbreaking Stern Review by British economist Nicholas Stern.

It says the global effort to cut greenhouse gases will need to be much larger to avoid the projected scenario.

"Larger and earlier cuts in developed country emissions will be required than previously thought, and major deviations from baselines will be required in developing countries by 2020," the paper says.

"It is hard to see how the required cuts could be achieved without all major developing, as well as developed, countries adopting economy-wide policies to reduce emissions."

1 Comments:

Blogger Swift said...

It must be the new math. By the old math China's double digit growth rate will push it's CO2 emissions to over twice the current total world production. Or perhaps the professor assumes the rest of the world will stop emitting any CO2?

12:37 PM  

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