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Global Warming:The top 5 climate science and policy developments to watch in 2015

Global Warming:The top 5 climate science and policy developments to watch in 2015

by The Daily Eye Team January 5 2015, 4:05 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 48 secs

2014 was widely seen as a breakthrough year when decision-makers finally turned the corner in the effort to avert runaway climate change. Agreements on climate change?to paraphrase what the 19th-century German statesman Otto von Bismarck said about law-making?are like sausages To control the fossil-fuel gases risking Earth?s climate system, 195 states are planned to strike in dec11 2015. The result of this strike will be attained in the coming months by Bismarck-style sausage-making ? an extensive, slow grind, and with many doubtful elements. What develops will quick future generations to either praise us for refining the carbon monster or blasphemy us for short-sightedness and greed? The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), Alden Meyer says, ?Nothing less than the shape of the climate regime for the next several decades?. Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber believes, ?2015 will set the stage for the living conditions of our grandchildren ? and their grandchildren, too?.

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