While China busy rope-a-doping Obama on climate — IndIa says it will DOUBLE COAL PRODUCTION by 2019
While China busy rope-a-doping Obama on climate — IndIa says it will DOUBLE COAL PRODUCTION by 2019. http://goo.gl/FnWx2f
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‘CO2 Going Up. Human Progress Going Up’
CO2 Going Up. Human Progress Going Up.
http://www.cato.org/blog/co2-going-human-progress-going
Paul C. “Chip” Knappenberger
Global Science Report is a feature from the Center for the Study of Science, where we highlight one or two important new items in the scientific literature or the popular media. For broader and more technical perspectives, consult our monthly “Current Wisdom.”
Yesterday it was announced by the World Meteorological Organization (an arm of the United Nations), with front page coverage by the global media, that the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) last year reached a new high value (396 parts per million, ppm) and got there in record time (2.9ppm/yr). Although newer data (through July of 2014) indicate that the rate of rise has fallen back again to levels more characteristic of the past decade, the signal remains—carbon dioxide is building in the atmosphere and rising to levels that have probably not been seen in along time (hundreds of thousands of years).
This rise is a continued reminder of the steady drumbeat of human progress. The carbon dioxide that is building in the atmosphere, at least in part, gets there through human emissions of carbon dioxide that are the by-product of burning fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas) to produce the vast majority the energy that has powered mankind’s industrial and technical ascent since the Industrial Revolution.
The gradual increase in the rate of the rise of the carbon dixoide concentration is a sign that we are continuing to expand our energy use and availability, primarily in developing countries like India and China. With more than a billion people still without much access to electricity (and many more than that who would like access to more) and all the life-improving benefits that come with it, we still have a long way to go.
Consequently, we should anticipate that the atmospheric CO2 concentration will continue to grow for many years to come.
The benefits that fossil use have delivered to humanity are enormous. A taste of them can be found at Cato’s HumanProgress.org website and a compelling case for why we should continue to embrace and expand fossil fuel use is made by Alex Epstein of the Center for Industrial Progress in his excellent (and very soon forthcoming) book The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels.
The only concern that arises from growing atmospheric CO2 levels stems from the potential climate changes that may result. Carbon dioxide is …
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Indian Environment Minister: ‘We need to grow’ – Developing Nations Have Right To Grow, CO2 Emissions May Rise
Indian Environment Minister: Developing Nations Have Right To Grow, CO2 Emissions May Rise
“Unless we tackle poverty, unless we eradicate poverty, we cannot really address climate change. To that end, we need to grow. Our net CO2 emissions may increase”
Prakash Javadekar, India’s Environment minister has taken a bold stand on the carbon emissions issue and stated a stark and inevitable truth.Though he emphasised on the fact that India is committed to reduce carbon emissions, it may increase in the process of development and poverty eradication.
Speaking at a function on the occasion of the “World Day to Combat Desertification” he stressed on the fact that India, as a developing nation, needs to grow and prosper and in that process there is no denying the fact that carbon emissions will substantially increase. World’s climate is being ravaged by these carbon emissions, but it is a necessary evil for the nations that want to develop. Economic development and carbon emissions go hand in hand.
“We have to reduce our carbon emissions. But I have not created the carbon emisssion problems, which have been done by others. But I am not into any blame game. The issue is that I have a right to grow. India and developing countries have the right to grow. These are the emerging economies”, he said at the ongoing function.
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Indian Climate Experts Slam Latest IPCC Report
Indian Climate Experts Slam Latest IPCC Report
http://www.thegwpf.org/indian-climate-experts-slam-latest-ipcc-report/
Climate policy experts from India have greeted the release of the latest report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) with ire.
The draft report, a summary of which was released in Berlin, Germany, this week (13 April), is written by the IPCC’s third working group, which focuses on climate change mitigation. The draft is part of the panel’s fifth assessment report (AR5) and will be incorporated into its synthesis report — a revised collection of the reports from all three working groups, due to be approved in October.
It suggests that the best way to avoid catastrophic climate change is by employing a mix of technologies — including carbon capture and storage (CCS), and nuclear and renewable power — while also reducing global use of consumables such as fossil fuels.
Without mitigation, average global surface temperatures will increase by 3.7 to 4.8 degrees Celsius by 2100 compared with preindustrial levels, it warns, making it clear that taking action now would be wise.
Yet the report has met with a mixed reception from experts. Climate policy analysts from developing countries tell SciDev.Net that the report downplays the responsibilities of rich countries for greenhouse gas emissions and fails to take proper account of the needs of developing nations when recommending mitigation measures.
Two big problems
Shreekant Gupta, coordinating lead author for the report’s chapter on integrated risk and uncertainty, and an economist at the University of Delhi, tells SciDev.Net that he finds the summary report “problematic”.
“The rules of the game are loaded against developing countries.”
First, it “shifts the focus of the emissions timeline to recent decades, emphasising the rises in emissions over the last 40 years and diluting the focus on historical emissions” made by rich countries, says Gupta.
Because the report focuses on rates of increase in emissions, developing nations are presented as the worst offenders, when many actually still contribute little to global emissions, he says. Neither does the report break down countries’ emissions per person or by GDP (gross domestic product).
Second, Gupta says, the report ignores the issue of how technology can be transferred to developing countries — without tech transfer advanced technologies such as CCS will remain an option only for rich countries.
Biased sources?
Martin Khor, executive director of the Switzerland-based South Centre, an intergovernmental policy analysis organisation of developing countries, says the …