IEA: Warming may be irreversible by 2017
Published: Nov. 11, 2011LONDON, Nov. 11 (UPI) — Rising energy demands could result in irreversible global warming by 2017 without strict new standards, an energy watchdog group said this week in London.
The International Energy Agency said in its latest World Energy Outlook, released Wednesday, that a “remarkable” 5 percent jump in global primary energy demand last year pushed greenhouse gas emissions to a new high due to the rebound of the world’s economies following the 2008 financial crisis.
And that, it said, bodes ill for efforts to reach a long-term target of limiting the global average temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels — especially with moves by governments to shift resources away from developing clean energy technologies as more economic problems arise.
“Without further action by 2017, the energy-related infrastructure then in place would generate all the CO2 emissions allowed” to keep the temperature rise at 2 degrees or lower, the report said
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What warming?
HadCRUT3 variance adjusted global mean temperature anomaly, 12-month average. Source: Wood for Trees.
December 20, 2011 at 21:46 |
If the modern warming follows a similar warming trend time of the Roman and MWP periods.Then it is about over and the cooling for the next few hundred years is on our doorstop.