Irreversible Consequences of Global Warming
“Climate change is essentially irreversible.” Six years ago this month – in January 2009 – Susan Solomon, a top climate scientist, authored a scientific study which reached that conclusion. The problem is that the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide remains in the atmosphere for hundreds of years, so even if all fossil fuel emissions (power generation, road transport fuels, etc., etc.) were ended today, the levels of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere would not be reduced. If on the other hand we continue to generate more carbon dioxide emissions, postponing any serious efforts to reduce them, the climate change will accelerate, eventually Continue reading...
