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Climate “deadlines are conditioned by the Earth’s response to human activity, not by humans”

• With the Kyoto limits on greenhouse gases due to expire in 2012, the debate on what should replace them came to Parliament’s Climate Change Committee on Thursday 4 October.
• A panel of experts from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as well as representatives from the US, China and Japan set out their views on how to deal with the problem.
• The UN experts told MEPs that to avert catastrophic climate change temperature increases must not rise by more than 2 degrees.

From last week’s European Parliament News, MEPs told “no rewind button ” on climate change ahead of post Kyoto talks.

John Ashton is clear on climate change key points for policymakers, as in this excerpt: Continue Reading Climate “deadlines are conditioned by the Earth’s response to human activity, not by humans”…