Mitigation 09/18/2009
Want to have your say? Click comments and 'leave a reply'... Mitigation of man made climate change or global warming involves actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reduce carbon emissions, and enhance 'carbon sinks'. 'Carbon sinks' are natural or manmade reservoirs that accumulate and store carbon-containing chemical compounds. The energy policy of the European Union has set a target of limiting the global temperature rise to 2 °C (3.6 °F) compared to preindustrial levels. A 2ºC increase was determined to be ‘an upper limit beyond which the risks of grave damage to ecosystems, and of nonlinear responses, are expected to increase rapidly’. Others in the scientific community have recently indicated that a cap at 2 °C will be insufficient, they argue that global warming of more than 1°C, would have “dangerous” climate change effects, such as rising sea levels and extermination of species. ("Introduction: Working Group III Report "Mitigation of Climate Change", Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007) Watch these videos to see the effects of the world temperature rising by just a few degrees... |