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World to Write Rulebook for Climate Action
Submitted by hungeski on Mon, 12/03/2018 - 11:13pm
The annual world climate talks take place in Katowice, Poland, this week and next. For this year the goal is to come up with a rulebook for implementing the Paris Climate Agreement.
A major goal of that agreement, made in December three years ago, is to keep global warming to 1.5°C (2.7°F) above preindustrial average. As of last year, the planet stood at 1.0°C (1.8°F) warmer.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world's top authority on the subject, produced a report for use at the meeting. The report focuses on the 1.5°C goal.
Effects of Warming
Effects of warming as we go from present to 1.5°C warmer, and then to 2.0°C, include ever higher risks to society. From the IPCC report:
B.1. Climate models project robust differences in regional climate characteristics between present-day and global warming of 1.5°C, and between 1.5°C and 2°C (3.6°F). These differences include increases in: mean temperature in most land and ocean regions (high confidence), hot extremes in most inhabited regions (high confidence), heavy precipitation in several regions (medium confidence), and the probability of drought and precipitation deficits in some regions (medium confidence).
B.3. Climate-related risks to health, livelihoods, food security, water supply, human security, and economic growth are projected to increase with global warming of 1.5°C and increase further with 2°C.
Happy Hanukkah 5779!
Submitted by The Liberal Moonbat on Mon, 12/03/2018 - 8:08pmI just thought maybe we needed this around here. I sure did. I've celebrated Hanukkah (and Christmas) my whole life, but I'd never heard of nor heard this one before today. I think you'll agree, it's timely.
Ford layoffs will be larger than GM's
Submitted by gjohnsit on Mon, 12/03/2018 - 6:01pmRemember the 14,000 employees that GM is laying off, and how it caused Trump to make empty threats?
Ford is about to do the same, but bigger.
The Evening Blues - 12-3-18
Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 12/03/2018 - 3:39pmNetanyahu's Last Stand?
Submitted by gjohnsit on Mon, 12/03/2018 - 2:48pmPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a corruption problem.
Specifically, he has a "getting caught" problem.
French Revolution 2018-2019. Finally the Cataclysm That Leads To Global Revolution?
Submitted by Mark from Queens on Mon, 12/03/2018 - 1:35pmI spent a good part of last night, in between caring for a sick vomiting child, and this morning perusing Twitter and some websites. The scenes and descriptions were alternately exhilarating and nauseating, empowering and confusing, stirring and disconcerting. Perhaps how it was to many citizens of Paris in 1789, or again in the Spring of 1871 during the Paris Commune.
Monday Open Thread: December 3 is International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 12/03/2018 - 5:00amDecember 3 is the 337th day of the year
It is also Boomtime, The Aftermath 45, 3184 YOLD (discordian)
And let us not forget 13.0.6.0.13 by the Mayan Long Count
"Well-placed sources have it that George H.W. Bush went down, not up!"
Submitted by snoopydawg on Mon, 12/03/2018 - 12:25amNOTE: An alternative viewpoint on the passing of George H.W. Bush