Comments on: COP18 Live: Latest news from Day 8 of Doha climate summit http://www.rtcc.org/cop18-live-latest-news-from-day-8-of-doha-climate-summit/ Latest climate change and biodiversity news, comments and analysis from Responding to Climate Change Fri, 24 May 2013 13:38:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Dale Lanan http://www.rtcc.org/cop18-live-latest-news-from-day-8-of-doha-climate-summit/#comment-10182 Dale Lanan Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:59:33 +0000 http://www.rtcc.org/?p=8766#comment-10182 Earth is losing reflectivity and ability to shed heat to space. Abrupt Climate Change is happening now. Earth is past the point where emissions reductions alone can reverse the slide to hard core CH4 Runaway.. Things went from global warming to accelerated global warming and now to Abrupt Climate Change which won't stop without human intervention.. -No plan to undo this is presented at COP18. The US gov negotiator said US was on track to meet goal for CO2 emission reduction by 2020. He didn't speak of CO2e, carbon dioxide greenhouse gas equivalence. Fact is some 1700 Billion Tonnes of CH4 is starting to release from East Siberian Arctic Shelf already. Atmospheric burden of CH4 globally is approx 5 Billion Tonnes and even a release of a small fraction of the Arctic methane in shallow sea floor basically is likely to set off Runaway particularly because the stuff is light and rises to form a veil in Stratosphere at approx 30 to 47km above Earth's surface which is growing fast. Earth is losing reflectivity and ability to shed heat to space. Abrupt Climate Change is happening now. Earth is past the point where emissions reductions alone can reverse the slide to hard core CH4 Runaway.. Things went from global warming to accelerated global warming and now to Abrupt Climate Change which won’t stop without human intervention.. -No plan to undo this is presented at COP18.
The US gov negotiator said US was on track to meet goal for CO2 emission reduction by 2020. He didn’t speak of CO2e, carbon dioxide greenhouse gas equivalence.
Fact is some 1700 Billion Tonnes of CH4 is starting to release from East Siberian Arctic Shelf already.
Atmospheric burden of CH4 globally is approx 5 Billion Tonnes and even a release of a small fraction of the Arctic methane in shallow sea floor basically is likely to set off Runaway particularly because the stuff is light and rises to form a veil in Stratosphere at approx 30 to 47km above Earth’s surface which is growing fast.

]]> By: Mike Haseler http://www.rtcc.org/cop18-live-latest-news-from-day-8-of-doha-climate-summit/#comment-10067 Mike Haseler Tue, 04 Dec 2012 08:02:04 +0000 http://www.rtcc.org/?p=8766#comment-10067 Get real! After three years of prevarication you still don't get it? No sane politician wants their country to sign up to any agreement. But no sane politician is going to come out and state that fact. Kyoto is dead, it's just that you are the last to know it. Get real! After three years of prevarication you still don’t get it?

No sane politician wants their country to sign up to any agreement. But no sane politician is going to come out and state that fact.

Kyoto is dead, it’s just that you are the last to know it.

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