Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Leave the Carbon in the Ground: An Open Letter to Governments and Their Negotiators | Common Dreams

Leave the Carbon in the Ground: An Open Letter to Governments and Their Negotiators | Common Dreams
"2012 saw the shocking melt of the Arctic, leading our greatest climatologist to declare a 'planetary emergency,' and it saw weather patterns wreck harvests around the world, raising food prices by 40% and causing family emergencies in poor households throughout the world.
That's what happens with 0.8ºC of global warming. If we are going to stop this situation from getting worse, an array of institutions have explained this year precisely what we need to do: leave most of the carbon we know about in the ground and stop looking for more."