NatureNews: Missed 2050 climate targets will reduce long-term options

Missed 2050 climate targets will reduce long-term options

Models suggest that drastic action will be needed in the latter half of the century

by Jeff Tollefson, Nature News, January 11, 2010 [Sorry readers, the full article is not free.]

After last month's United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen failed to produce a binding agreement to cut greenhouse-gas emissions, the outlook still isn't getting any better.

A modelling study suggests that the massive mobilization necessary to halve greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050 is "barely feasible" unless global development patterns shift radically.

Link:  http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100111/full/news.2010.6.html