2 Degrees Warmer: Ocean Life in Danger

If the world warms by two degrees, some of the changes to the biosphere are no longer gradual.

Six Degrees Could Change the World
Sunday, February 10 8 PM et/ 9 PM pt
http:/channel.nationalgeographic.com/cha­nnel/sixdegrees/?source=4003

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[uknowispeaksense]

@mrjohantheman get a grip buddy. i provided you with references from peer reviewed scientific publications about three posts ago. I can only assume you didn't bother with them. normal people can do a lot. I live carbon neutral and it wasn't difficult to change. If everyone in the developed world made the change there wouldn't be a problem. As for relying on world leaders...it is there self-interest that prevents them from doing anything.

Its not me predicting the future. Its the science.

[uknowispeaksense]

@mrjohantheman It's too late to prevent the planet warming by that 2 degrees but not too late to stop it warming by 3,4,5,6 etc degrees. It's not about you or me but about future generations. You might like to be known to future generations as one of the people who sat on their backsides and did nothing, fiddling while Rome burned but I don't. So, fiddle away Nero, fiddle away.

[jackie castle]

agreed. and just maybe that being so we can stop the damage before we reach that point of unstopable.

i have some great ideas if we began that could protect life as well as the ecconomy.

sad truth, most don't know we are dieing.

j

[jackie castle]

we are currently at 1.7%.... i do not think we have till 2023 before we've reached an unstopable point. we really must see this as a war to save life on Earth.

most don't see us humans as extinctable. SAD!

j

[jackie castle]

thanks for speaking sense, yes it is true many of these mention's at 1.7% higher as we are today allready are. glad you care.

j

[Adam Ramer]

I find it particularly ironic that at the pace things are moving, the oil they'll be exploring for in the arctic won't even make it to the gas station before the society that demanded it has collapsed.

[uknowispeaksense]

it doesn't help that Exxon plans to spend $150 billion over the next few years expanding their operations and into the Arctic.

[Adam Ramer]

Frankly, it's too late to prevent the release of the amount of CO2 needed to raise the temperature to 10 deg C. We only need to raise it ourselves by about 4 deg, then the methane clathrates melt and it's game over.

There's room in the atmosphere for about 500 gt more carbon dioxide before the temp hits 2 deg C higher. But the problem is, 2,700 gt of carbon dioxide are locked up in fossil reserves owned by the big three oil companies. They've already leveraged it so it's as good as burnt.

[Jared Beeks]

degrees is most definitely spelled wrong lol, it says, "degress"

[Anthony Starfield]

Is that 2 degrees Fahrenheit or Celsius? I think America and Albania should embrace the metric system, except for the Celsius scale. The scientists should use it. With Fahrenheit 32 degrees is freezing, zero degrees is a big deal, reaching 100 degrees or over is news, the 60s is cool, maybe wear a light jacket, the 50s is coat weather.

The Celsius scale has none of those charms and 100 degrees Celsius is the boiling temperature of water! We'll never use more than half the scale!