We may have less time than it takes to pay off a new car before we reach a tipping point beyond which an environmental domino effect could reinforce the warming trend in violent and unpredictable ways.
We are already at the half way point in the 100 month countdown to reaching a major milestone in Co2 emissions and we may only have 50 months left to do something about it that would keep the world’s average temperature from rising above 2 degrees Celsius or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, at 3.6 degrees, we lose the Amazon forest.
As one Climate scientist put it, if I were a doctor, I would say that the patient had a terminal illness and is expected to die of an extreme fever somewhere between 2038 and 2050 if left untreated.
That time frame is an estimate of greenhouse gasses passing the 450 parts per million thresholds from the World’s leading authority on Climate Change, The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change the (IPCC).
Incredibly, in spite of the huge stakes that dangerous climate change represents to all of us, most Politicians continued to shrink from the climate change dialogue and many politicians have simply turned their back on the science in spite of the increase of more violent storms like hurricane Katrina and Sandy, more severe snow storms than in over 100 years and the 11 of the hottest summers ever recorded, fueling decade long droughts.
Instead of being at the top of the political agenda, it has fallen to the very bottom. One of the greatest threats to human progress, the imminent threat of irreversible climate change is almost upon us and could start to adversely impact civilization by as early as 2016, a blink of the eye in geological terms.
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