Lies about the climate

Mr. Monbiot notes that the current targets for preventing a global mean temperature rise in excess of 2°C are optimistic - that is, they are a bunch of lies.
Policies are too far behind the science, and the actual reductions in greenhouse gases are too far behind policy for anything less than 2°, basically.

To give ourselves a high chance of preventing dangerous climate change, we will need a programme so drastic that greenhouse gases in the atmosphere end up below the current concentrations. The sooner this happens, the greater the chance of preventing two degrees of warming.
But no government has set itself this task. The European Union and the Swedish government have established the world’s most stringent target. It is 550ppm, which gives us a near certainty of an extra 2°C.

Comments

[Gustav]

I'm so sick of everything climate-related right now that I'm not even going to bother with this. But I love your new design! Black, sleek, short and to-the-point. :)

[Jan Tångring]

Arbetaren skrev om det i februari.

http://www.arbetaren.se/articles/inrikes2007027

Arbetaren har bästa svenska klimatbevakningen, tycker jag. Dels i tidningen och dels i en ny klimatblogg med en a la blogg skarpare retorik.