Misc: Global warming
Posted by: rupy @ 12:14 PM January 24 2005
Looks like we may be in some trouble...
From Slashdot "The global warming danger threshold for the world is clearly marked for the first time in an international report to be published tomorrow - and the bad news is, the world has nearly reached it already. For the full store, see this article"
From the article:
The report says this point will be two degrees centigrade above the average world temperature prevailing in 1750 before the industrial revolution, when human activities - mainly the production of waste gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2), which retain the sun's heat in the atmosphere - first started to affect the climate. But it points out that global average temperature has already risen by 0.8 degrees since then, with more rises already in the pipeline - so the world has little more than a single degree of temperature latitude before the crucial point is reached.
Its high time we stopped using smelly gas cars and convert to electric / hyrdogen / fuel cell based power. Although I can definitely see problems arising from these as well...
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