The world in 2050: Impact of global growth on carbon emissions

[maliasghar]

A very interesting Read:

The world in 2050: Impact of global growth on carbon emissions

Link: http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/world-2050/...2050carbon.pdf


This report was produced by PwC in advance of the Stern Review report published in the UK on 30 October 2006.

The rapid economic growth of emerging countries such as China and India—together with continued more moderate growth in today’s advanced economies—could have serious long-term consequences for global energy consumption and carbon emissions.

The projections demonstrate that if countries sit back and adopt a "business as usual" approach, the result could be a more than doubling of global carbon emissions by 2050. Based on current scientific thinking, this could have potentially serious longer term implications in terms of global warming and related climate change.

On the other hand a scenario such as the "Green growth plus" strategy outlined in the report could allow for continued healthy growth whilst controlling carbon emissions.

[Hamza Salick]

Originally Posted by maliasghar

A very interesting Read:

The world in 2050: Impact of global growth on carbon emissions

Link: http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/world-2050/...2050carbon.pdf


This report was produced by PwC in advance of the Stern Review report published in the UK on 30 October 2006.

The rapid economic growth of emerging countries such as China and India—together with continued more moderate growth in today’s advanced economies—could have serious long-term consequences for global energy consumption and carbon emissions.

The projections demonstrate that if countries sit back and adopt a "business as usual" approach, the result could be a more than doubling of global carbon emissions by 2050. Based on current scientific thinking, this could have potentially serious longer term implications in terms of global warming and related climate change.

On the other hand a scenario such as the "Green growth plus" strategy outlined in the report could allow for continued healthy growth whilst controlling carbon emissions.

Have you come across any articles by scientists who claim there is no such thing as 'Global Warming' and that historical data and temperatures show that the earth,infact,is in an ice age of sorts.I read a few pieces way back,and they apparently had the data to back it up.

[redmax]

Originally Posted by hamza_salick86

Have you come across any articles by scientists who claim there is no such thing as 'Global Warming' and that historical data and temperatures show that the earth,infact,is in an ice age of sorts.I read a few pieces way back,and they apparently had the data to back it up.

I came across few articles in some journals at a library. I cannot confirm if those were the latest issues but they surely were not much old to have lost their credibility of the encompassed data. The few pieces which I read hold the argument that 'ozone depletion' was a real phenomenon but the impacts or their assessment is largely crafted and manipulated for multiple purposes including political and economic. What I believe is that it's next to impossible for an individual to confirm and keep check whether 'global warming' does really exist or not. May be Al Gore's 'Inconvenient Truth' is just an other documentary/movie based on perceptions of a group of scientists led astray by their far fetched imagination.

[candidguy]

@Hamza salick:
"Ice age is marked by presence or expansion of continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers".so,Yes!by definition we are living in an Ice age.Global warming is something different from the intermittent warm periods aka interglacials.

@Redmax: Yes!Algore's 'Inconvenient Truth' is a serious hyperbole.
By the by Ozone has nothing to do with Global warming,it's greenhouse gases emitted from industries etc that are responsible for the very phenomenon.

[Hamza Salick]

Scientists say that instead or 'global warming',the term used should be 'Rapid climate change'..The temperature readings from 1850s onwards show that in many areas of the world,there actually has been a decrease in average temperatures.In others,there has been a negligible increase.

[candidguy]

Originally Posted by hamza_salick86

Scientists say that instead or 'global warming',the term used should be 'Rapid climate change'..The temperature readings from 1850s onwards show that in many areas of the world,there actually has been a decrease in average temperatures.In others,there has been a negligible increase.

Yes!it has got a lot to do with the logic,I'm expanding upon in the following lines.

Green house gases comprise mainly of carbon dioxide,since it's a water soluble gas and its solubility increase exponentially with rise in temperature[1],The air above equator and adjoining areas abounds in water vapor and temperatures are high,poles and the higher altitudes on the contrary have low water vapor(dry air) and temperature,hence CO2 gas seems to have occupied the equator and the adjoining areas and hence made a thicker layer over these areas.that's why these regions incur a great rise in temperature.and vice versa?
This is my own logic,may be right,may be wrong.
[1]http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/gases-solubility-water-d_1148.html

[candidguy]

Originally Posted by candidguy

Yes!it has got a lot to do with the logic,I'm expanding upon in the following lines.

Green house gases comprise mainly of carbon dioxide,since it's a water soluble gas and its solubility increase exponentially with rise in temperature[1],The air above equator and adjoining areas abounds in water vapor and temperatures are high,poles and the higher altitudes on the contrary have low water vapor(dry air) and temperature,hence CO2 gas seems to have occupied the equator and the adjoining areas and hence made a thicker layer over these areas.that's why these regions incur a great rise in temperature.and vice versa?
This is my own logic,may be right,may be wrong.
[1]http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/gases-solubility-water-d_1148.html

BUT,you are right.as this document has made me take my words back.

Is Global Warming Getting Colder?

[candidguy]

there is great anomaly in temperatures distribution,contrary to my hypothesis.

[Hamza Salick]

Originally Posted by candidguy

BUT,you are right.as this document has made me take my words back.

Is Global Warming Getting Colder?

Yeah.Exactly the thing I was referring to.I actually read all this in a novel by Clive Cussler,but he had given hundreds of references from scientific journals and research in that novel.So it really wasn't a work of fiction.

[redmax]

Allow me to make some assumptions. Take for instance the odd events that surfaced last year and earlier this year, including heatwave in Russia, Floods in China & Pakistan. Sri Lanka was no exception either. Many other countries witnessed unusual behaviour of the seas and winds in their territories. To the bewilderment of a laymen, a number of writers in the newspaper associated these changes with the 'Global Warming'. However, these phenomena are basically part of seasoning process as the recorded history tells us. The climate change is quite normal as is seasoning. Whether the ozone has really got a hole in it, whether the carbon level has reached to alarming level on the earth or not is only a matter of time when this balloon will be deflated.