[OKC] Climate challenge underestimated?

[Shauna Struby]

>From Nature magazine . a climate policy expert and an economist lay out
commentary in an article . they think emission scenarios in the IPCC are
overly optimistic .

 

Money quote: 

 

"The paper is a bombshell," says Marty Hoffert, former chair of the
Department of Applied Science at New York University. "It explodes the idea
that sufficient technology exists to solve the climate and energy problem,
and that global warming can be dealt with by market incentives."

 

Technology will not automatically come to our aid, experts warn.Claims that
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has seriously
underestimated the challenge and costs of stabilizing greenhouse-gas
emissions in the 21st century are fuelling controversy among climate and
energy researchers.

 

More here: http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080402/full/news.2008.728.html 

 

::: shauna lawyer struby

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