MOST of the world’s population will be wiped out if political leaders fail to agree a method of stopping current rates of global warming, one of the UK’s most senior climate scientists has warned.
Professor Kevin Anderson, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change, believes only around 10 per cent of the planet’s population – around half a billion people – will survive if global temperatures rise by 4C.
Anderson’s warning comes just eight days before global leaders meet in Copenhagen for the most crucial talks on climate change reversal since the Rio summit in 1992. Current Met Office projections reveal that the lack of action in the intervening 17 years – in which emissions of climate changing gases such as carbon dioxide have soared – has set the world on a path towards potential 4C rises as early as 2060, and 6C rises by the end of the century.
Anderson, who advises the government on climate change, said the consequences were "terrifying".
Exactly how is terrifying?
Think about this from a "progressive" point of view. As "progressives" we all know human beings are the scourge of the earth. If humans end up dying as a result of global warming that would be a good thing, right?
Of course the fewer people on earth means there are fewer corn growers, meat eaters, house builders, incandescent loght bulb users and SUV drivers which should mean the climate should get better because all of the heinous polluters are now dead, right?
Thanks to Jeremy for the heads up.
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