Below is a link to recent statement by Jim Hansen regarding global warming impacts. Directly below is a quote from that statement. fyi. Peggy Miller, Highland Winds ....
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Despite uncertainties in reserve sizes, it is clear that if we burn all the fossil fuels, or even
half of remaining reserves, we will send the planet toward the ice-free state with sea level about
250 feet higher than today. It would take time for complete ice sheet disintegration to occur, but
a chaotic situation would be created with changes occurring out of control of future generations.
Oil may already be about half depleted, i.e., the world may be close to peak oil
production (implying that the IPCC estimate of reserves is closer to the truth than the EIA
estimate). In either case, common sense suggests that the largest oil pools will be exploited and
the carbon dioxide, which is emitted mainly from tailpipes, will end up in the atmosphere. Gas,
the least carbon intensive and cleanest burning fossil fuel, also surely will be exploited.
The obvious conclusion is that the only practical way to avoid climate catastrophe is to
terminate emissions from the largest fossil fuel source: coal, the dirtiest of the fossil fuels. If
coal emissions are phased out between 2010 and 2030, global fossil fuel emissions would begin
to fall rapidly as shown in Figure 2.
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