The climate change discourse rarely looks beyond 2100, writes Pete Dolack. Maybe that's because even at current levels of CO2, we are committed to thousands of years of warming and polar ice melt that will raise sea levels by at least six meters. However the implacable imperatives of capitalism mean there's little prospect of change for a long time to come.
The world is already committed to a six meter sea level rise Pete Dolack Systemic Disorder | 24th July 2015 News Climate Change Oceans Science Emissions Arctic Antarctic antarctic-icefront.jpg …
Of all the impacts of climate change, one stands out for its inexorable menace, writes Pete Dolack: rising oceans. And it's not just for distant future generations to deal with: new scientific studies show that people alive today may face 6-9 metres of sea level rise flooding well over a million sq.km including many of the world's biggest cities. So where's the emergency response?
… markedly reduced warming or even cooling in Europe, differ fundamentally from existing … climate change assessments." A cold and arid Europe The authors cite evidence that at the … there was a dramatic cooling in northern Europe , estimated at 3C in summer and 5C to …