Fossil fuels should be 'phased out by 2100' says IPCC

[ScienceRocks]

Fossil fuels should be 'phased out by 2100' says IPCC


2 November 2014

The unrestricted use of fossil fuels must end soon if the world is to avoid dangerous climate change.

That is the central message of a stark new report from the UN-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The IPCC urges that by 2050, most of the world's electricity must - and can - be produced from low carbon sources.
Fossil fuels, without carbon capture and storage (CCS), should be phased out "almost entirely" by 2100.
The short Synthesis Report was published on Sunday in Copenhagen, after a week of intense debate between scientists and government officials.
The report says the world faces "severe, pervasive and irreversible" impacts without effective action on carbon.
"It's very clear from the report that fossil fuels have had their day," said Prof Arthur Petersen from UCL and a member of the Dutch government's team in Copenhagen.
"Of course it is up to politicians to decide which risks they want to take with climate change, so it is not policy prescriptive in saying that these reductions should take place, but it is absolutely clear that the reductions should take place if you want to limit (temperature increases) to 2C."

http://www.bbc.co.uk...onment-29855884

The ipcc wants to do away with fossil fuels.

 

[Rotagilla]

Those guys are funny

and sea monsters will attack the east coast in 2101...volcanoes! meteors! martians!
blah...blah...blah...

 

[Abishai100]

Gourd Supercop

Do Western petroleum companies such as Sunoco and British Petroleum make us really feel better about all the complicated USA-OPEC intrigue?

Algeria, a member of OPEC, is arguably ahead of the USA in development of eco-friendly wind energy.

When we think of petroleum, we think of a thick and oily substance that flows smoothly and can be engaged rather conveniently to produce engine-catalytic energy.

I remember the intro of the animated "Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends" (USA) superhero show which featured a terrile super-villain who was comprised entirely of chaotic fire.

Our society seems to be preoccupied with the unpredictable motions of energy and volatility as they relate to chemistry and the marketing of chemicals. The use of fossil fuels should be levied in discussions with considerations of the use-value of Earth's other elements and minerals --- maybe just to calm everybody down.

Sales of water-guns in American toy stores have risen in the last twenty years, perhaps because consumerism globalization (i.e., eTrade) creates a demand for 'physics relics' (and toys).







en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BP

 

[Politico]

Those guys are funny

and sea monsters will attack the east coast in 2101...volcanoes! meteors! martians!
blah...blah...blah...

It's the weak minds that they prey on.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

As long as money's involved, nothing for the greater good will ever come about. Only way to ensure climate change doesn't result in global calamity is a global revolution and paradigm shift from capitalist based governments and economies to a more agrarian model.

 

[DGS49]

http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion...bout-to-die-Robert-Bryce/stories/201411160096
Please read this article, then somebody please remind me why we must harrass our electric utilities to close down our remaining coal-fired generation plants.

Pardon me for being a simpleton, but it is pointless.

Whatever the effects of increasing CO2 in the atmosphere will be, they are coming and nothing we do in the U.S. will have any effect on them whatsoever. Better we should be thinking about how the world can accommodate what happens when it happens.

NOTE TO ANYONE IN BUFFALO: How's that global warming thing working out for ya?

 

[Manonthestreet]

There is no such thing as "fossil" fuels.

 

[Old Rocks]

Given the developments of the last couple of months, fossil fuels will be phased out a lot sooner than 2100. Simply on an economic basis. Fossil fuels are, as of now, much more expensive than wind. And soon will be the same for solar.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/24/b...-win-on-price-vs-conventional-fuels.html?_r=1

According to a study by the investment banking firm Lazard, the cost of utility-scalesolar energy is as low as 5.6 cents a kilowatt-hour, and wind is as low as 1.4 cents. In comparison, natural gas comes at 6.1 cents a kilowatt-hour on the low end and coal at 6.6 cents. Without subsidies, the firm’s analysis shows, solar costs about 7.2 cents a kilowatt-hour at the low end, with wind at 3.7 cents.

 

[Mr. H.]

Nothing can replace hydrocarbons and still allow humankind to maintain the current quality of life on earth.

Ever.

 

[Old Rocks]

As fuel for electrical generation and vehicles, they will be replaced. As industrial stock, no, they will still have there place.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

IPCC should be phased out right after Republicans win the WH in 2016