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Saturday 6 August 2016

Prof Kevin Anderson - Double Shot:Climate change Delivering on 2 degrees' Keynote and and Interview from March 2016 on the Emerald Isle



"...so let's think where we are today 2016, in the first IPCC climate change report on came out over 25 years ago which i'm looking around here that's that's longer than some of you have been alive so for a quarter-century gray-haired or no head people have completely failed you and your future so when you see people like me to the front I should really start with a very sincere apology that we are handing you this legacy, so a quarter of a century we've known about climate change everything we need to know to act and we have actively chosen to do nothing, worse than nothing actually the carbon dioxide emissions this year will be sixty percent higher than they were in 1990

So during our 25 years of concern for your futures we've let our emissions go up so they are 60% higher now. The atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide is currently higher than is has been for about 800,000 years and probably as much as five million years but certainly 800,000 years which is about two to three times longer than any of us not any one individual but as a species on the planet"
The 1.5 Ship has arrived at it's destination. COP21: 1.5 Disingenuous Sop to the poorer Nations of the world

The Global Carbon Atlas


What I'm playing with today whilst looking into the devious minds of those Scientists who are driving the Deniers insane

Pep Canadell Executive Director of the Global Carbon Project (GCP), the first joint project of the Earth System Partnership (ESSP) sponsored by: the Interntional Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), the International Human Dimension Programme (IHDP), the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), and Diversitas.one of the authors of The Global Carbon Budget 2014
The Global Carbon Atlas is an online platform to explore, visualize and interpret global and regional carbon data arising from both human activities and natural processes. The graphics and data sources are made available in the belief that their wide dissemination will lead to new knowledge and better-informed decisions to limit and cope with human-induced climate change. The Global Carbon Atlas is a community effort under the umbrella of the Global Carbon Project based on the contributions of many research institutions and individual scientists around the world who make available observations, models, and interpretation skills.
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Components 

The Atlas has three components with objectives and information relevant to different users: OUTREACH takes you on a journey tracing the history and possible future relationship between carbon emissions and human development. It is intended as an educational experience for the broad public while utilizing robust and up-to-date observations and modeling from climate change science. EMISSIONS is a tool to explore, display and download data and figures on carbon dioxide emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels, cement production and land use change over multiple decades, including their drivers. Information is available at the global, regional and national levels with tools that allow comparison, ranking and to visualize changes over time. Data from Contributors. RESEARCH provides tools to create custom global and regional maps and time series of carbon fluxes from research models and datasets. Data are contributed by many research institutions (see Contributors). This component will further advance collaborative international research on the functioning of the carbon cycle and its interactions with the climate system.


Pep Canadell


The concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere has increased from approximately 277 parts per million (ppm) in 1750 (Joos and Spahni, 2008), the beginning of the Industrial Era, to 395.31 ppm in 2013 (Dlugokencky and Tans, 2014). Daily averages went above 400 ppm for the first time at Mauna Loa station in May 2013 (Scripps, 2013). This station holds the longest running record of direct measurements of atmospheric CO2 concentration (Tans and Keeling, 2014; Fig. 1). The atmospheric CO2 increase above preindustrial levels was initially, primarily, caused by the release of carbon to the atmosphere from deforestation and other land-use-change activities (Ciais et al., 2013). While emissions from fossil fuel combustion started before the Industrial Era, they only became the dominant source of anthropogenic emissions to the atmosphere from around 1920 and their relative share has continued to increase until present. Anthropogenic emissions occur on top of an active natural carbon cycle that circulates carbon between the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere reservoirs on timescales from days to millennia, while exchanges with geologic reservoirs occur at longer timescales (Archer et al., 2009).