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War, refugees, rising sea levels, hunger, drought, poverty ... planet earth in the 21st century The grim future predicted in leaked UN report
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And cycling won't make much difference.
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"War, refugees, rising sea levels, hunger, drought, poverty"
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Posted 11 years ago #
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From SH paper -
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REACTIONS
"Climate change is the greatest threat to the planet's ecosystems and our lifestyles."
James Curran, chief executive of the Scottish Environment Protection
Agency"This report is telling us that if we don't accelerate our efforts to build a low-carbon economy and particularly a carbon-neutral energy system, we risk experiencing not just dangerous but unmanageable climate change. "No major economy, including the UK,
has yet begun to do that seriously."
John Ashton, a senior climate adviser at the Foreign Office in London from 2006-12, who was speaking to a conference in Glasgow organised by the Church
of Scotland yesterday"Climate change is one of the most serious challenges to global society and the natural environment both at home and abroad. If the world fails to act decisively, then the economic and social costs will be severe."
Paul Wheelhouse, the Scottish Government's Environment Minister, stressed the efforts being made in Scotland to cut climate pollution"The Scottish Government is in denial on climate change. SNP ministers
are unwilling to see the connection between their love of fossil fuels and
their failure to meet climate targets year after year."
Green MSP Patrick Harvie"The world has to give up fossil fuels as quickly as possible. Business
as usual means a very grim future, especially if you live in a poor country."
Dr Richard Dixon, director of Friends of the Earth Scotland"The impacts of climate change are not far away in the future. They are
here and happening now, affecting the people, places and species we care
about across every continent and ocean."
Gina Hanrahan, of WWF Scotland"There are reports that one author had pulled out [of this study] because drafts were "too alarmist". Global warming is a long-term problem we must address. But describing it in one-sided, vaguely apocalyptic terms does not help us find smart solutions."
Dr Bjorn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Centre and a leading climate critic"
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The Scottish Government's targets for reducing transport emissions require at least 10% of all journeys being made by bike by 2020.
The Climate Change Commission just published their report into emissions in Scotland in 2011. The headline figures are actually pretty good - but transport emissions haven't fallen at all the the last couple of years (there was a reduction due to the financial crisis). The report is pretty clear that the Scottish Government has to do more to encourage modal shift to walking and cycling.
There also needs to be a massive uptake of electric vehicles and decarbonsiation of freight transport.
None of this is looking very likely in the short to mid term. You can find the report at:
http://www.theccc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/1871_CCC_Scots_Report_bookmarked.pdf
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Rowan Williams warns of climate catastrophe
The former Archbishop of Canterbury argues that Western lifestyles bear the responsibility for causing climate change in world's poorest regions
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Ed Davey, the UK Energy and Climate Secretary said: "The science has clearly spoken. Left unchecked, climate change will impact on many aspects of our society, with far reaching consequences to human health, global food security and economic development."
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Jim Densham, senior climate policy officer at RSPB Scotland, said: "The IPCC report powerfully backs up what we know about the changes that are already affecting Scotland's natural heritage."
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