Extract from ABC 24 Website:
The latest Climate Commission report has warned that 80
per cent of global fossil fuel reserves will have to stay in the ground
if the planet is to avoid dangerous climate change.
The paper says global emissions need to trend downward by the end of the decade to keep temperatures at a "manageable" level. The report's author, Professor Will Steffen, says reaching the goal will be a challenge, given greenhouse gas concentrations are now at the highest level on record.
"We need to put in place a very clear pathway to a decarbonised economy within the next 30-35 years and that's why it's so important that people realise that the numbers are clear and simple," he said.
"We have to leave most of the fossil fuels in the ground and of course that has obvious implications for investment decisions this decade."
Read Climate Commission report: The Critical Decade 2013
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Pale Blue Dot - Carl Sagan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl5dlbCh8lY
This excerpt from A Pale Blue Dot was inspired by an image taken, at Carl Sagan's suggestion, by Voyager 1 on February 14, 1990. As the spacecraft left our planetary neighborhood for the fringes of the solar system, engineers turned it around for one last look at its home planet. Voyager 1 was about 6.4 billion kilometers (4 billion miles) away, and approximately 32 degrees above the ecliptic plane, when it captured this portrait of our world. Caught in the center of scattered light rays (a result of taking the picture so close to the Sun), Earth appears as a tiny point of light, a crescent only 0.12 pixel in size.
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