“Everybody, even the schoolchildren, knows this is a catastrophe for all of us.”
The Washington Post reports,
The chief economist for the International Energy Agency said Monday that current global energy consumption levels put the Earth on a trajectory to warm by 6 degrees Celsius (10.8 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels by 2100, an outcome he called “a catastrophe for all of us.”
Fatih Birol spoke as as delegates from nearly 200 countries convened the opening day of annual U.N. climate talks in Durban, South Africa…
Unless there is a shift away from some of the fossil fuel energy now used for electricity generation and transportation, Birol said, “the world is perfectly on track for a six-degree Celsius increase in temperature.
“Everybody, even the schoolchildren, knows this is a catastrophe for all of us,” he said at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Birol spoke in unusually blunt terms about the climate implications of the global energy mix, implications that are disputed by many conservatives in the United States who don’t believe in the connection between human activity and climate change.
We don’t know how Birol could possibly predict what are the climate implications of greenhouse gas emissions.
As top climate alarmist Tom Wigley observed in the Climategate 2.0 e-mails:
Quantifying climate sensitivity cannot be done.
Read the Washington Post article.
Read “Wigley — ‘Quantifying climate sensitivity cannot be done'”
Judging from the US debt and deficit, the multiple failed stimuli, the state of the Euro, and the financial conditions of the PIIGS (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Spain) the ‘science’ of Economics is not much further advanced than ‘climate science’ in terms of being able to make quantitative descriptions of outputs vs. inputs.
The chief economist?