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Peak Carbon Emissions By 2020, or Else!<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Photo Source David Burke | CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

World greenhouse gas emissions must peak by 2020, or it\u2019s lights out!<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the message from the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), which has come out from under the shadows of Paris 2015 swinging like a heavyweight champion boxer, and in fact they\u2019ve taken the gloves off in preparation for bare-knuckled fisticuffs.<\/p>\n

The world\u2019s leading scientists met at the Forty-Eighth Session of the IPCC and First Joint Session of Working Groups I, II, and III, 1-5 October 2018 in Incheon, Republic of Korea and openly declared that civilization is on track for collapse because of reckless use of fossil fuels, unless the beast is corralled, meaning start reacting now, no more waiting around!<\/p>\n

Peak emissions must be achieved by 2020, a slap in the face wakeup call issued by the gathering of scientists in South Korea, They intend to change the course of history, or so they claim. Along those lines, 1.5C is an absolute guardrail not to be crossed (not their words but it\u2019s what their analysis implies). Not a bad idea and worthy of deeper analysis, and it is much stronger than previous pronouncements.<\/p>\n

At first blush, peak GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions by 2020 seems nearly impossible to achieve, but it\u2019s a decent idea and jam-packed full of strong motivation, like all hell breaks lose without immediacy of action. In a BBC interview, Heleen de Coninck, a Dutch climate scientist said: \u201cThe decisions we make now about whether we let 1.5 or 2 degrees or more happen will change the world enormously.\u201d<\/p>\n

In years past, the IPCC viewed the next century as the timeline for deep reckoning when the climate monster would be most threatening. That\u2019s been amended in a big way. Now, trouble is only decades away, and maybe only a few, not several.<\/p>\n

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