This is scary to me on an almost subliminal level
Quote of note:
Pachauri urged the world to shift strategy from Kyoto's reduction targets for greenhouse gases to long-term global targets on how much of the gases the atmosphere should contain.
Carbon dioxide levels have risen about 30 percent since the start of the 18th century to almost 380 parts per million.
"We need a degree of agreement on where to stabilize concentrations," he said. "We have to try to come up with an understanding of where we are heading in the next 30-40 years."
I…don't have much confidence in mankind's ability to actively manage a system as chaotic as the biosphere.
Anyway…
Kyoto Too Little to Fix Warming - UN Climate Chief
Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:16 AM ET
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent
OSLO (Reuters) - Although saved last week with Russian help, the Kyoto pact on global warming offers too little to arrest climate change and governments should adopt more radical solutions, the top U.N. climate expert said.
"My feeling is that we will probably need to do more than most people are talking about" to combat climate change, Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), told Reuters.
He welcomed ratification of the Kyoto pact on Friday by Russia's lower house of parliament, paving the way for the long-delayed 1997 accord to enter into force in the 126 nations that approved it even though the world's greatest polluter, the United States, pulled out in 2001.
