Unfortunately your quoted author got his facts wrong. He says "The beige cells in the adapted table above show the percentage increases in the total (undiscounted) mitigation costs necessary to achieve the far-left (white cells) atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases ...."Do We Really Have a Decade Left to Solve Climate Change?
Wise alecks on social media noted with amusement how Beto O’Rourke recently claimed humans had only ten years to act on climate change, thus one-upping Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who had previously gone out on a limb by putting the deadline at twelve years. Snark aside, it’s important to point out that the “consensus science” as codified, for example, in the periodic reports from the United Nations do not support such a cliff-hanger mentality at all.
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The people presently quoting 2030 do so because it is regarded as a "tipping point."
In other words, if things are now well in place to mitigate GHG emissions by then, subsequent actions would need to be extreme to prevent the more dire scenarios of the IPCC playing out.
Some scientists reckon we already passed the tipping point.
Because you don't know science you also don't know that there is a threshold temperature above which natural feedback systems that currently keep the Earth cool will unravel. We only know when that is after the event because we will see a cascade of climate events which thrust the planet into what is termed a "hothouse" state.To put it simply it is a bit of descriptive journalese in an effort to create a 'tipping point' in the public belief of there actually being a threat using a computer generated projected 'dire' meteorological outcome in a hundred years or so.
Clearly at ASF we will likely still have the few die-hard Climate Hysterics, banging on until the next election, who are programmed into their belief system but I tend to think of ASF as being a delicious fruit cake, gotta have a few nuts in there for novelty!
I suppose ...
I don't worry .... but this is ridiculous !!
It Was A Record 84 Degrees Near The Arctic Ocean
Unseen for 3 million years !!
Whilst not worried about my next 40-60 years, well ... below the Artic lies 1.8 trillion tons of CO2 frozen and about 10 billion tons of frozen methane ... which is 85 times worse than CO2.
basically 1.8 trillion tons of CO2 permafrost when it melts, not if ... WHEN .. is everything we have emitted post 1850. As for say 10 billion tons of methane ... at 85 times the impact ... well that's ... 4 times that.
4 TIMES ... the impact .... added to the 1.8 trillion, well its like a train that's fallen off the rails on a bridge and stopping it is just sadly not possible.
I cant change the destructive human nature and the likely end of most of this species. Such is life. I will join them and embrace the time left.
So worrying ? No ..
Caring about my next generation ? Yep ... and the one following it into the post 2100 period it will be somewhat interesting if not devastating.
Take care
The reason we now have cheap solar panels is because governments around the world incentivised early uptake, and manufacturers we able to achieve economies of scale in production.I personally think high % renewable energy capture and storage is inevitable, but we don't need be the dumb country to pay too much to get what we need. The electorate has spoken.
I was not amongst them.Informed people will have read about Gottliebsen's article about Germany and high electricity prices due to early wind energy uptake.
About 40% of the price the I paid nearly 7 years ago for something similar when the labour party were handing out big feed in tariffs, fortunately it pays for itself every 3.3 years. If you had the opportuntity, particularly in QLD and missed it, it due to procrastination, maybe you should give up DIY investing and hand it over to someone else who knows what their doing. Blind Freddy was onto that one.
We installed in May 2012.Was just pointing out that roof top solar wasn't necessarily the only or best investment choice for your hard earned dollars that you could have made in 2012.
Our FIT is presently around 52cents/Kw from AGL and we are guaranteed at least 44cents until 2028.In 2028 you're guaranteed a certain FiT, but there's no guarantee that power prices won't be more than that by then, which would erode your "guaranteed" $3000 per year return.
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