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Mon, 2008-03-24 11:06

We speak to Wieslaw Maslowski about his prediction that by the summer of 2013, we will have completely lost ice cover in the Arctic. Dr. Maslowski says that the complete loss of summer ice may actually happen sooner. The concern we have at Beyond Zero Emissions is that without moving to near zero emissions and drawing down atmospheric carbon as soon as possible, this could cause the irreversible melt of Greenland leading to 5 metre sea level rises this century.

Dr. Wieslaw Maslowski predicted a 2013 Ice Free Summer Arctic five years ago – now he says that may have been too conservative | Zero Emissions Climate Change Global Warming Solution

On course to suffer global warming of four degrees

Date July 9, 2011

There is only one way to frame the weekend’s carbon tax announcement: a start. Assume Australia hits its very soft target, cutting annual greenhouse gas emissions five per cent by 2020 – and the rest of the world does everything they’ve promised – we are on course to suffer global warming of 4 degrees or more by the end of the century.

We have already warmed the planet by 1 degree, relative to pre-industrial times, and are almost certainly experiencing an associated increase in costly, extreme weather events to say the least. In Australia, while it is impossible to be definitive about the cause of any single weather event, a list of prime suspects includes last decade’s crippling drought, Victoria’s Black Saturday bushfires of 2009 and this year’s devastating floods.

Not scary enough for some, but as our chief climate change adviser, Ross Garnaut, warned earlier this year, ”if we are seeing an intensification of weather events now, you ain’t seen nothing yet”.

On course to suffer global warming of four degrees

Royal Society special issue details ‘hellish vision’ of 7°F (4°C) world — which we may face in the 2060s! | ThinkProgress

Professor Kevin Anderson, Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, said the only way to reduce global emissions enough, while allowing the poor nations to continue to grow, is to halt economic growth in the rich world over the next twenty years.

Cancun climate change summit: scientists call for rationing in developed world – Telegraph

Oct. 29, 2010 — The fear that global temperature can change very quickly and cause dramatic climate changes that may have a disastrous impact on many countries and populations is great around the world.

The Earth has not had such a high CO2 content in the atmosphere since more than 15 million years ago, when the climate was very warm and alligators lived in England. So we have already started tilting the seesaw and at the same time the ball is perhaps getting kicked more and could jump over into the other trench. This could mean that the climate might not just slowly gets warmer over the next 1000 years, but that major climate changes theoretically could happen within a few decades,”

Dramatic climate change is unpredictable

Arctic meltdown that could result in summers without sea ice as soon as 2013 instead of 2100 (!). So much for our confidence in the 2007 IPPC report suggestion that we have until 2015 to level off emissions.

2100 | ecoSanity.org – See. Act. Inspire!

2100 | ecoSanity.org – See. Act. Inspire!

4degrees international climate conference, 28-30 sept 2009, Oxford, UK

Met Office warns of catastrophic global warming in our lifetimes

Sunday 27 September 2009

Met Office warns of catastrophic global warming in our lifetimes

Met Office data shows no warming this century. The graph below shows the mind-boggling incompetence of government climate experts.

www.woodfortrees.org/data/hadcrut4gl/from:2001/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:2001/trend