“In the latest ‘Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 5th Assessment Report’ (IPCC AR5), there have been published a selection of ‘Representative Concentration Pathways’ (RCP’s).
Dr Matt Watson, from the school of earth Sciences at the University of Bristol (UK), made this point strongly at a recent meeting at the Royal Society in London:“Why are we doing this? Why are we doing this research? This is why, this is the latest projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and the alarming thing is that these two scenarios [RCP 2.6 and RCP 4.5] both include negative emissions technology. So, there is geoengineering, of the flavour of carbon dioxide removal, in the best case scenarios.”
“The very, very alarming thing for us is that we are on this path here, that is RCP 8.5. We are slap bang on this trajectory and this puts us in a very different place in our children’s lifetime.”
All hope of maintaining a liveable planet has been gambled on negative emissions technology that simply does not exist. In fact it is “Fantasy Technology” that they hope will be invented sometime in the future.
Chair of the IPCC Dr Rajendra Pachauri
“If there’s no action before 2012, that’s too late. What we do in the next two to three years will determine our future. This is the defining moment”
Valencia Spain, Nov 17, 2007.
U.N. Report Describes Risks of Inaction on Climate Change – The New York Times.
Nick Breeze recorded this seminal presentation that is a must watch if you want to understand the horrendous gamble that the dominant culture has taken with all complex life on the planet. Watch the video at the following link; Survivable IPCC projections based on science fiction.
More posts by Nick Breeze: http://envisionation.co.uk
We have crossed a multitude of “Tipping Points” and the IPCC has gambled everything on little more than science fiction.
I'm an anti-imperialist, environmental activist and blue ocean sailor, who is passionate about the earth and all it's inhabitants without favour. Brace for imminent impact as we bare witness to the non-linear unraveling of the biosphere and habitability disappearing for most if not all complex life on the only habitable planet we know of. To quote President Niinistö in North Russia: ‘If We Lose the Arctic, We Lose the World’. Folks we have lost the Arctic.
Reblogged to Nature bats last forum.
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Excellent interview on Radio Ecoshock on this subject;
[audio src="http://www.ecoshock.net/downloads/ES_TFriedrich.mp3" /]
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Reblogged this on Move for Change and the Brooklyn Culture Jam and commented:
It amuses me (as it must amuse Kevin Hester) that the climate denialists disparage the IPCC as some ‘liberal’ source of information too quick to announce bad tidings. In fact, the science in the fifth assessment is quite clear–there’s no survivable climate scenario absent geoengineering we haven’t invented yet. Clock is ticking. Brace for impact.
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Professor Guy McPherson discusses the role of the IPCC.
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“Coal on limited lifespan as CCS hopes go up in smoke
By Giles Parkinson on 29 June 2017
The coal industry is facing a new crisis point as a group of leading scientists call for the construction of new coal generators to cease within three years, and as the industry’s flagship “clean coal” and carbon capture and storage project went up in smoke in the US.”
“As reported elsewhere on this web site, the US energy utility Southern Co finally gave up on its much-vaunted Kemper coal gasification and CCS project, after costs soared from $US1.8 billion to more than $US7.5 billion ($A10 billion), and it realised it wasn’t going to work.”
http://reneweconomy.com.au/coal-limited-lifespan-ccs-hopes-go-smoke-11013/#undefined.gbpl
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“The IPCC’s grafting of 20th century growth and productivity data onto future scenarios completely misses the intimate relationship between energy and economies.”
More excellent work from Insurge Intelligence;
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Another feedback loop making a mockery of the failed IPCC predictions.
https://theconversation.com/warm-waters-melting-antarctic-ice-shelves-may-have-appeared-for-the-first-time-in-over-7-000-years-82016?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest+from+The+Conversation+for+October+20+2017+-+86057143&utm_content=Latest+from+The+Conversation+for+October+20+2017+-+86057143+CID_b127cf7b781aaa5d422c8a966b3ba814&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=flowing+up+to+the+surface
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More on this subject from Nick Breeze and Kevin Anderson
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The latest from Sam Carana debunking the IPCC delusion.
We have already exceeded 1.5C
https://arctic-news.blogspot.co.nz/2018/02/ipcc-seeks-to-downplay-global-warming.html
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The IPCC have gambled everything on fantasy technology and lost, don’t shoot the messenger!
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/03/the-paris-climate-accords-are-starting-to-look-like-fantasy.html?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=s3&utm_campaign=sharebutton-b
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More on the myth of scalable CCS now from Tindall Centre for Climate Change Research
http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/news/new-animation-paris-agreement-requires-co2-removal-atmosphere
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Scientific American calls out the biggest gamble of all time. Survival of most if not all complex life o the planet has been left to a ‘crap shoot’ of CCS that is fantasy technology.
We saw the same thing with the nuclear industry telling us they would sort out the waste issue ‘later’. It’s later and still no joy.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/dont-gamble-our-planets-future-on-unproved-technologies/
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More excellent work from Radio Ecoshock calling out the IPCC and their politically diluted latest report.
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The latest analysis from Dahr Jamal via Patrick Farnsworth of the “Last Born in the Wilderness blog and You Tube chanel;
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“IEEFA have just published a great report detailing the failure of all the North American CCS projects. Very good reference.” Care of Cindy Baxter;
http://ieefa.org/ieefa-report-holy-grail-of-carbon-capture-continues-to-elude-coal-industry-cautionary-tale-applies-to-domestic-and-foreign-projects-alike/?fbclid=IwAR29jHytYxK1hzrph5VyfPkhVIAlHhR3lyqKLMQsUC3ixH4zJhJ6uJGKgTM
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Study shows IPCC is underselling climate change. It’s no shit sherlock Wednesday from where i’m studying!
https://phys.org/news/2019-03-ipcc-underselling-climate.html?fbclid=IwAR1OKQyX6acFGWK6GvDh07EvM3QtAzgzt26sbjs0v_DKtz04bGOxt-Eamyw
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Carbon Dioxide removal sucks;
https://theecologist.org/2020/nov/13/carbon-dioxide-removal-sucks?fbclid=IwAR2DenXhzKFWYsqCdwpyjdS2OcmLGjiN79t49OUuBkousLb0QALbl-cvivs
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Courtesy of the wonderful Alice Friedemann
“Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) systems, touted as techno-fixes for global warming, usually put more greenhouse gases into the air than they take out, a study published last month has confirmed.
Carbon capture and storage (CCS), which grabs carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by coal- or gas-fired power stations, and then uses it for enhanced oil recovery (EOR), emits between 1.4 and 4.7 tonnes of the gas for each tonne removed, the article shows.
Direct air capture (DAC), which sucks CO2 from the atmosphere, emits 1.4-3.5 tonnes for each tonne it recovers, mostly from fossil fuels used to power the handful of existing projects.
If DAC was instead powered by renewable electricity – as its supporters claim it should be – it would wolf down other natural resources.
And things get worse at large scale.”
https://ideas.repec.org/a/spr/bioerq/v5y2020i3d10.1007_s41247-020-00080-5.html?fbclid=IwAR0On8IChi78vYUEIosMqKf6fXt1t-w4zTRlUmUCEBfKEOML8dWjKWFbO7w
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Carbon capture and storage at scale is fantasy technology.
The IPCC gambled the entire biosphere and lost.
https://dgrnewsservice.org/civilization/ecocide/climate-change/net-zero-and-other-climate-delusions/?fbclid=IwAR0qSnFx0TUjnpl48-h0XKeG7ycXSdFW0kUZzyaV8G9k8ntZib7g3WnHdE0
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More evidence that CCS doesn’t work at scale
https://www.eco-business.com/news/carbon-capture-and-storage-wont-work-critics-say/?fbclid=IwAR1a86Vz-f6v6VXPCiaI2LoK6t9H5P9KmGeHAQMDzP6Jz_9FE784FqfiHwE
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Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) systems put more greenhouse gases into the air than they take out.
https://theecologist.org/2020/nov/13/carbon-dioxide-removal-sucks?fbclid=IwAR29xhOlY6f21_-TDdIg5U3m9cUag6orOrRwQ_4jcutmmgA9imdj18NGz3E
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