Sir David Attenborough at COP24, Katowice, warns,
“Civilisations are going to collapse and much of nature will be wiped out to extinction if humanity doesn't take urgent action on climate change.”
“Civilisations are going to collapse and much of nature will be wiped out to extinction if humanity doesn't take urgent action on climate change.”
The warning came as Sir David took the "People's Seat" at the opening of the conference, as part of a UN initiative that aims to give normal people a voice at the international climate talks.
Sometimes it feels though I live on another planet - maybe I do! I read and hear all the warnings about global warming and I think maybe we have something which might help to reduce it or at least bring the rise in temperature to a stop. I know that the central aim of the Paris agreement was to strengthen and accelerate a global response effort in combatting the threat of climate change. How did they intend to achieve this?
1) Keep global temperature rise “well below”, 2 degrees C, or 3.6 degrees F, above pre-industrial levels by 2100.
2) Pursue efforts to limit temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees C.
3) Limit green house gases emitted by human activity.
The rest is political nonsense; rich countries aiding poorer countries by providing “climate finance”; demanding contributions of at least 100 billion dollars towards upgrading their production facilities etc. 147 countries have ratified the agreement. The four biggest emitters of greenhouse gases - India, China, US and the European Union had signed up for it but the US has since changed its mind.
But even the biggest or the smallest emitters simply cannot comply with the agreement, so this is just so much hot air with little chance of achieving anything close. The less developed areas of the world need their old fashioned technology before they can even contemplate spending more money than they can afford to update their industrial processes.
This website https://climate.nasa.gov/causes/ provides a good balanced view, even discussing the theory that the global warming might be caused by periodic increases in the sun's output. They offer a good argument against this being a factor in global warming, and although I admit I still subscribed to that view, their evidence is pretty convincing.
There IS a potential solution! Bessler’s Wheel could eventually replace massive amounts of fossil burning technology. 147 countries ratified the Paris agreement, but in my opinion they can indeed talk the talk, but they simply can’t walk the walk, without knowing or finding some additional way of generating electricity (for instance) A brave aspiration but impractical without pre-industrial technology such as Bessler's wheel!
There IS a potential solution! Bessler’s Wheel could eventually replace massive amounts of fossil burning technology. 147 countries ratified the Paris agreement, but in my opinion they can indeed talk the talk, but they simply can’t walk the walk, without knowing or finding some additional way of generating electricity (for instance) A brave aspiration but impractical without pre-industrial technology such as Bessler's wheel!
JC
