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*The climate bomb: the time count has begun*
Mass media all over the world are filled with news that the rate of СО2 in
the atmosphere has reached its historical maximum. 97% of global research
proves that mankind is to blame for the irreversible climate change,
Guardian has reported recently. Environmental NGOs believe that urgent
abandonment of fossil fuel in favor of renewable power and energy
efficiency can mitigate the consequences of the climate change.
*For more climate and energy related news please visit our website
rusecounion.ru*
Researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego
have published data on higher carbon dioxide concentrations in the
atmosphere of the Northern hemisphere. The researchers' conclusion is based
on the longest observations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere in the
history of science. Measurements are done by a station located at the Mauna
Loa volcano in Hawaii. The first data was obtained in March 1958 when the
carbon dioxide content was 316 ppm. Interestingly, in the past 800 thousand
years that number had never exceeded 300 ppm.
According to the researchers, by the beginning of the industrial revolution
era the rate was close to 280 ppm, after which mankind started burning
fossil fuel on an industrial scale. Despite all the warnings, abandonment
of the carbon dependence remains a dream, and the speed at which the carbon
dioxide concentration in the atmosphere grew in the past century is
unprecedented in the geological history of the planet.
Today, the carbon dioxide concentration has increased by a quarter and
amounts to already 400 parts per million. According to the researchers,
such rates existed on Earth about 3 to 5 million years ago, before the last
ice age.
"Last year, all our stations in the Arctic also showed a CO2 rate of 400
parts per million. But this is the first time we have a rate this high in
the Southern hemisphere," said James Butler, Director of the Mauna Loa
laboratory.
The new data have made scientists speak of the greenhouse effect problem
again.
"We are moving to a prehistoric climate, which can cause enormous and
potentially catastrophic risks for mankind," said Bob Ward from the Climate
Change and Environmental Research Institute in London to the AFP agency.
"The history of the Earth has not yet known such precedents," confirmed
Michael Mann, Director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State
University.
"The climate bomb can burst around 2040," said Alexey Kokorin, Coordinator
of the Climate and Energy program of the World Wildlife Fund, in an
interview to Bellona. "We used to think that the situation is becoming
worse gradually, but now scientists have realized that man's impact is
evened out by natural cycles. Such a situation will continue for about 20
years. But it is perfectly clear that after that the situation will instead
be accelerated. This break must be used to reduce pollution and not to calm
ourselves down and not do anything, because after this break the effect
will double."
The only way to meet this number is urgent transition of the global economy
from fossil fuel to renewable power sources, energy efficiency, and
sustainable consumption in all sectors (agriculture, transport,
manufacture, etc.), believe activists from the 350.org group (
http://400.350.org/#1 ).
Environmental NGOs all over the world agree with this statement. The
Climate Secretariat of the Russian Social and Environmental Union and
environmental NGOs of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus have written the same
thing in their statements many times. "Subsidies for nuclear power and
fossil fuel must be redirected to state support of production of renewable
power sources and equipment for them, energy saving materials for
construction, and energy-efficient machinery," they say.
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Mass media all over the world are filled with news that the rate of СО2 in
the atmosphere has reached its historical maximum. 97% of global research
proves that mankind is to blame for the irreversible climate change,
Guardian has reported recently. Environmental NGOs believe that urgent
abandonment of fossil fuel in favor of renewable power and energy
efficiency can mitigate the consequences of the climate change.
*For more climate and energy related news please visit our website
rusecounion.ru*
Researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego
have published data on higher carbon dioxide concentrations in the
atmosphere of the Northern hemisphere. The researchers' conclusion is based
on the longest observations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere in the
history of science. Measurements are done by a station located at the Mauna
Loa volcano in Hawaii. The first data was obtained in March 1958 when the
carbon dioxide content was 316 ppm. Interestingly, in the past 800 thousand
years that number had never exceeded 300 ppm.
According to the researchers, by the beginning of the industrial revolution
era the rate was close to 280 ppm, after which mankind started burning
fossil fuel on an industrial scale. Despite all the warnings, abandonment
of the carbon dependence remains a dream, and the speed at which the carbon
dioxide concentration in the atmosphere grew in the past century is
unprecedented in the geological history of the planet.
Today, the carbon dioxide concentration has increased by a quarter and
amounts to already 400 parts per million. According to the researchers,
such rates existed on Earth about 3 to 5 million years ago, before the last
ice age.
"Last year, all our stations in the Arctic also showed a CO2 rate of 400
parts per million. But this is the first time we have a rate this high in
the Southern hemisphere," said James Butler, Director of the Mauna Loa
laboratory.
The new data have made scientists speak of the greenhouse effect problem
again.
"We are moving to a prehistoric climate, which can cause enormous and
potentially catastrophic risks for mankind," said Bob Ward from the Climate
Change and Environmental Research Institute in London to the AFP agency.
"The history of the Earth has not yet known such precedents," confirmed
Michael Mann, Director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State
University.
"The climate bomb can burst around 2040," said Alexey Kokorin, Coordinator
of the Climate and Energy program of the World Wildlife Fund, in an
interview to Bellona. "We used to think that the situation is becoming
worse gradually, but now scientists have realized that man's impact is
evened out by natural cycles. Such a situation will continue for about 20
years. But it is perfectly clear that after that the situation will instead
be accelerated. This break must be used to reduce pollution and not to calm
ourselves down and not do anything, because after this break the effect
will double."
The only way to meet this number is urgent transition of the global economy
from fossil fuel to renewable power sources, energy efficiency, and
sustainable consumption in all sectors (agriculture, transport,
manufacture, etc.), believe activists from the 350.org group (
http://400.350.org/#1 ).
Environmental NGOs all over the world agree with this statement. The
Climate Secretariat of the Russian Social and Environmental Union and
environmental NGOs of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus have written the same
thing in their statements many times. "Subsidies for nuclear power and
fossil fuel must be redirected to state support of production of renewable
power sources and equipment for them, energy saving materials for
construction, and energy-efficient machinery," they say.
--
RSEU Climate Secretariat
www.rusecounion.ru
Address: Voznesenskij 36-4, St.Petersburg, 190068, Russia
Tel: +7 812 2410043
Tel.mob: +7 921 9117986, +7 9217444255
e-mail:rseu.c...@gmail.com
From: "Climate Secretariat RSEU" <rseu.c...@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 3:26 PM
Subject: The climate bomb: the time count has begun
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