Greenhouse Neutral Foundation Comment: – Looking forward further into the future Scientist have suggested the upward movement of rising temperatures won’t just stop at the current upper levels suggested by the IPCC but will continue. As suggested by Mother Natures Supersalesman in his closing remarks in the book ZERO Greenhouse Emissions – excerpt

“Now just one last question if I can. I have looked over your plans for the future and see the strategy you have planned for global warming. Your other advisors, those of the Union of Concerned Scientists, the collective Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change amongst others, have mapped out the future with ‘best available science’ rising temperatures slowly degree by degree year by year. They may be right with the timing, only time will tell. They seem however to stop comfortingly at 2100. Just far enough into the future so that most of the decision makers here today, can get another few terms of office in and most of those born today, don’t feel immediately threatened, although anticipating an inconvenience to some extent, over the coming decades. My final question is, will you be stopping at 5.8 degrees warmer? Or will you be happy going a little higher, let’s say to 10 degrees or 15 or above? How much curry do you want in that vindaloo and how many of Mother Nature’s hot chilli peppers would you like to spice it up?” End excerpt.

Climate change could make half of the world uninhabitable for humans as a rise in temperature makes it too hot to survive, scientists have warned

Researchers from the University of New South Wales in Australia and Purdue University in the US said global warming will not stop after 2100, the point where most previous projections have ended.

In fact temperatures may rise by up to 12C (21.6F) within just three centuries making many countries into deserts.

The study, published in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, said humans will not be able to adapt or survive in such conditions.

Professor Tony McMichael, one of the authors, said if the world continues to pump out greenhouse gases at the current rate it will cause catastrophic warming.

“Under realistic scenarios out to 2300, we may be faced with temperature increases of 12 degrees or even more,” he said. “If this happens, our current worries about sea level rise, occasional heatwaves and bushfires, biodiversity loss and agricultural difficulties will pale into insignificance beside a major threat – as much as half the currently inhabited globe may simply become too hot for people to live there.”

Professor Steven Sherwood, a fellow author, said there was no chance of the Earth reaching such temperatures this century.

But he said there was a good chance temperatures could rise by at least 7C (12.6F) by 2300, that would also make much of the world inhabitable.

“There’s something like a 50/50 chance of that over the long term,” he said.

Prof Sherwood said climate change research had been “short-sighted” not to probe the long-term consequences of the impact of greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.

“It needs to be looked at,” he said. “There’s not much we can do about climate change over the next two decades but there’s still a lot we can do about the longer term changes.”

::The world should shift to a low carbon economy not to stop climate change but to preserve ‘human dignity’, according to a report from a self-styled “eclectic” group of academics.

The UN process has failed, they argue, and a global approach concentrating on CO2 cuts will never work.

They urge instead the use of carbon tax revenue to develop technologies that can supply clean energy to everyone and provide ‘human dignity’.

Their so-called Hartwell Paper is criticised by others who say the UN process has curbed carbon emissions.

The paper is named after Hartwell House, the Buckinghamshire mansion, hotel and spa where the group of 14 academics from Europe, North America and Japan gathered in February to develop their ideas.

Source Telegraph UK