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
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