Old news... I guess most people who are interested in this knew this already 10 years ago.
However, afterwards, global warming accelerates.
Anyway, the CO2 problem is not a global "warming" problem, but a global climate change, that will kill the most specialized species, make other species move geographically, introduce unpredictable weather with a higher frequency of natural disasters, reduce global food production, change country borders and ignite unrest. However, it is closely connected to the bigger problem, the reduction of biological diversity worldwide. The amount of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere is much larger than the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere - but until now, the emitted CO2 somehow disappeared into the oceans or somewhere else. Benefits include increased agricultural production in some places, and less ice problems for ships.
The questions are: What can we predict, should we try to reduce CO2 emission, and how do we handle the effects. Economically, it seems to make sense to reduce CO2 emissions, and it makes sense to prepare for the effects already now when constructing new buildings, roads etc.
However, the fact that the next decade may not have increasing temperatures, doesn't mean that we won't have less problems. |
