90% by 2030

[90% by 2030]

Hi all,

Fabian - Good work in getting this forum off the ground! - should be a great place to discuss topics of mutual interest.

I'm particularly interested in climate change, but will try and contribute to all threads, where I have something to add.

I work in CSR within a UK company, but its my personal interest that brings me here on a Friday night.

The name comes from George Monbiot, and his conclusion that the co2 reduction we need is 90% by 2030 (not 60% by 2050) if the 2 percent rise in world temperatures are to be avoided.

Cheers

[Johnny Electriglide]

yes, of course, and a 75% reduction by 2010. The arctic tundra methane release quantification threw in the wild card of the feedback loop that changes everything. The increase looks to be extremely exponential, then over time going to hydrate deposits and clathrates at various levels in the ocean, and a few terrestrial areas. Far beyond that which most life forms can adapt. ELE. Then what? Does it even matter? Maybe the ice age beginning with the total stoppage of the Gulf Stream, followed by the Yellowstone Super Volcano Eruption and several years without sun and completing the albedo change while the Earth is still near maximum tip? Or so hot that the ice ages don't return for several million years. People are still overbreeding so fast that they negate any positive gains(and we are way too far into overshoot), and many scientists forget the practicalities of implementation times. Well, my footprint is 15% of the average American by being totally solar and with an Earthship since 1998, 1 child only, and smaller engined vehicle, plus composters including a toilet. Replenish the Earth, Fill the Earth, but don't over-fill it. My efforts will be small, but it is the moral thing for me.<rockon>