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PricewaterhouseCoopers on Climate Change
Posted: 06 Nov 2012, 10:23
by clv101
Here's a new report from PwC:
Too late for two degrees?
http://www.pwc.com/en_GX/gx/low-carbon- ... x-2012.pdf
Simplistic analysis but I agree with the conclusions.
This year we estimated that the required improvement in global carbon intensity to meet a 2°C warming target has risen to 5.1% a year, from now to 2050. We have passed a critical threshold – not once since World War 2 has the world achieved that rate of decarbonisation, but the task now confronting us is to achieve it for 39 consecutive years.
The 2011 rate of improvement in carbon intensity was 0.7%, giving an average rate of decarbonisation of 0.8% a year since 2000.
Even to have a reasonable prospect of getting to a 4°C scenario would imply nearly quadrupling the current rate of decarbonisation.
...or, I would argue, a rapidly shrinking economy. Collapse, anyone?
Posted: 06 Nov 2012, 12:23
by biffvernon
Wot I thought 35 years ago when nobody listened. [/smug]
(Mind you, PCW still can't quite bring themslves to remove the question mark from their title.)
Collapse is necessary.
Will it happen automatically?
Should we act to hasten it?
If so, how?
Posted: 06 Nov 2012, 17:18
by SleeperService
biffvernon wrote:
Collapse is necessary.
Will it happen automatically?
Should we act to hasten it?
If so, how?
Yes
Yes
Spend less (no) money on stuff you don't need, eliminate (or at least reduce) your debt, insulate, draughtproofing, grow your own.
If everybody cut their spending by 10% the collapse would happen almost overnight and certainly within a few weeks. Retailers are weak especially the big chains, the rest follows...
Posted: 06 Nov 2012, 17:53
by biffvernon
SleeperService wrote:
Spend less (no) money on stuff you don't need, eliminate (or at least reduce) your debt, insulate, draughtproofing, grow your own.
Tick
Tick
Tick
Tick
Tick
Posted: 06 Nov 2012, 19:06
by biffvernon
Wow! That was some lecture. Kevin Anderson actually spelled out the truth. And it wasn't pretty.
Posted: 07 Nov 2012, 09:43
by Blue Peter
biffvernon wrote:Wow! That was some lecture. Kevin Anderson actually spelled out the truth. And it wasn't pretty.
Wrong thread, I think
Peter.
Posted: 07 Nov 2012, 10:05
by emordnilap
biffvernon wrote:SleeperService wrote:
Spend less (no) money on stuff you don't need, eliminate (or at least reduce) your debt, insulate, draughtproofing, grow your own.
Tick
Tick
Tick
Tick
Tick
A couple more:
Make longevity the most important feature of major purchases.
Flood proof your home.
Posted: 07 Nov 2012, 11:52
by biffvernon
Blue Peter wrote:
Wrong thread, I think
Peter.
Er,yes, like my time dilation problem.
