{"id":6078,"date":"2018-10-08T11:28:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T11:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/strettonclimatecare.org.uk\/?p=6078"},"modified":"2018-10-08T11:40:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T11:40:05","slug":"pull-back-now-or-fry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strettonclimatecare.org.uk\/2018\/10\/pull-back-now-or-fry\/","title":{"rendered":"Pull Back Now or Fry; IPPC Abandons Fluffy Wording"},"content":{"rendered":"
After decades of hedging its bets, the IPCC has put it starkly; we are on the edge of climate disaster – and it will be difficult and hugely expensive but utterly necessary to pull back.<\/p>\n
Dropping its usual woolly wording, \u00a0the IPCC warns that “rapid , far reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society” will be needed to stay below the Paris agreement target of 1.5 degrees of warming.<\/p>\n
We have already reached 1.0 to 1.1 degrees of warming, and even in the UK – which is likely to be one of the least affected – it’s become obvious that the choice is going to be between pretty uncomfortable and catastrophic. In a related piece of research, Carbon Brief has mapped where the worst effects will be found<\/a> and – perhaps the ultimate irony – it looks as if the USA could be among those counties most badly affected.<\/p>\n “Scientists might want to write in capital letters, ‘ACT NOW IDIOTS’, but they need to say that with facts and numbers,” said Kaisa Kosonen, from Greenpeace, who was an observer at the negotiations. “And they have.”<\/p>\nDicing with Liveability<\/h4>\n