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<!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal">“…. Even when emissions are
stabilized at 90% below present levels at 2050, this 2.0C threshold is
eventually broken.”</p><p class="MsoNormal">Andrew J. Weaver et al. Long
term climate implications of 2050 emission reduction targets. GEOPHYSICAL
RESEARCH LETTERS, 2007</p><p class="MsoNormal">************************************************<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“…. even the most aggressive CO2 mitigation
steps as envisioned now can only limit further additions to the committed
warming, but not reduce the already committed GHGs warming of 2.4°C.” <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> On avoiding dangerous
anthropogenic interference with the climate system: Formidable challenges ahead</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">V. Ramanathan* and Y. Feng. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences September 23, 2008</p><p class="MsoNormal">******************************************************<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“In their excellent
Perspectives article in this issue, Ramanathan and Feng (R&F) sound a harsh wake-up call for those concerned about
anthropogenic climate change: the authors
maintain that the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the past have already loaded the Earth System sufficiently to
bring about disastrous global
warming. In other words, the ultimate goal of climate protection policy, as
stipulated by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC), appears to be a delusion. <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> “Our planet is already
committed to anthropogenic warming in the range of 1.4 – 4.3°C, where 2.4°C is the most likely amount.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> “Venturing into the 2 realm is
risky, … because large-scale nonlinear responses of the planetary machinery are
likely to be triggered then. These effects might even conspire to bring about —
in the worst of all possible climate change science fictions —something like a
runaway greenhouse effect.”</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> “… the race between climate
dynamics and climate policy will
be a close one …. requires an industrial revolution for sustainability starting
now.”</p><p class="MsoNormal">Global warming: Stop worrying,
start panicking? <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Hans Joachim Schellnhuber. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences September 23, 2008</p><p class="MsoNormal">**************************************************<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“The 2007 Bali conference heard
repeated calls for reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions of 50 per cent
by 2050 to avoid exceeding the 2C threshold. …. it is increasingly unlikely any
global agreement will deliver the radical reversal in emission trends required
for stabilization at 450 ppmv carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e). Similarly, the
current framing of climate change cannot be reconciled with the rates of
mitigation necessary to stabilize at 550 ppmv CO2e and even an optimistic
interpretation suggests stabilization much below 650 ppmv CO2e is improbable.”</p><p class="MsoNormal">Reframing the climate change
challenge in light of post-2000 emission trends <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Kevin Anderson and Alice Bows. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Society <i class="">A</i>:
<i class="">Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences</i> (2011)</p>
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