{"id":351879,"date":"2018-03-13T00:39:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T23:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/fixing-global-warming-is-bigger-than-paris-15-2\/"},"modified":"2018-03-13T00:39:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T23:39:05","slug":"fixing-global-warming-is-bigger-than-paris-15-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/fixing-global-warming-is-bigger-than-paris-15-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing Global Warming is Bigger Than Paris \u201815"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The worldwide effort to harness, slow down, lessen, reduce, remove the threat of global warming is epitomized by the Paris \u201915 climate accord. This agreement calls for nations of the world to implement plans to slow down greenhouse gas emissions, specifically CO2 from fossil fuels, and to take other remedial actions necessary to hold global temps below 2\u00b0C but preferably 1.5\u00b0C relative to the start of the industrial revolution over 200 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>That task may be an overwhelming one, more so than realized, due to the simple fact that according to YaleEnvironment360:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Frighteningly, this modern rise of CO2 is also accelerating at an unusual rate. In the late 1950s, the annual rate of increase was about 0.7 ppm per year; from 2005-2014 it was about 2.1 ppm per year.<sup><\/sup><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIf humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted\u2026 CO2 will need to be reduced\u2026 to at most 350 ppm,\u201d according to Columbia University climate guru James Hansen. \u201cWe sailed past that target in about 1990, and it will take a gargantuan effort to turn back the clock.\u201d<sup><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, year-over-year CO2 numbers continue a relentless march upwards, unimpeded.<\/p>\n<p><u>Monthly average CO2 Readings in Parts Per Million (\u201cPPM\u201d)<\/u><\/p>\n<p>1850 (Ice Core Data)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 285.20<\/p>\n<p>1959 (Mauna Loa readings start) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 316.18<\/p>\n<p>February&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/03\/fixing-global-warming-is-bigger-than-paris-15\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The worldwide effort to harness, slow down, lessen, reduce, remove the threat of global warming is epitomized by the Paris \u201915 climate accord. This agreement calls for nations of the world to implement plans to slow down greenhouse gas emissions, specifically CO2 from fossil fuels, and to take other remedial actions necessary to hold global [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-351879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}