You Didn’t Walk To Work, So The Climate Of The Planet Might Soon Tip Over

28 Mar, 2012 by William Teach

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Today’s doom story

(Sustainable Business) Scientists keep beating the drum, hoping the world will wake up to the fact that climate change is a real, non-partisan, non-advanced vs development country issue.

Dubbing the phenomenal recent explosion in human activity, “The Great Acceleration,” leading scientists say time is running out to minimize the risk of setting in motion irreversible and long-term climate change and other dramatic changes to Earth’s life support system.

If nothing is done, the world is on track for the worst predictions with temperatures set to rise by 6 degrees Celsius by 2100.

At the Planet Under Pressure Conference, taking place in London, 2800 scientists warn the earth is dangerously close to an irreversible tipping point.

Certainly, they wouldn’t take unnecessary fossil fueled flights to attend this conference, right? Plenary Speakers and Panelists:

Bina Agarwal, Delhi University, India
Yvo de Boer, KPMG, The Netherlands
Lidia Brito, UNESCO, France
Nigel Cameron, Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies, USA
Shobhakar Dhakal, Global Carbon Project, Japan
Sandra Diaz, CÃ³rdoba National University, Argentina
Will Steffen, Australian National University, Australia

And many from Brazil, more from the US (including all the way from California), there’s Sweden, Mozambique, Congo, Austria, Jordan, South Africa…and hey, there’s our good buddy Andrew Revkin from the NY Times. All these folks are taking some very long and certainly fossil fueled trips to tell us that CO2 from fossil fuels will make the climate hotcoldwetdry or something