{"id":997,"date":"2014-11-02T07:15:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T12:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=997"},"modified":"2014-11-02T07:15:26","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T12:15:26","slug":"un-sees-irreversible-damage-to-planet-from-fossil-fuels-bloomberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=997","title":{"rendered":"UN Sees Irreversible Damage to Planet From Fossil Fuels &#8211; Bloomberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-11-02\/un-sees-irreversible-damage-to-planet-from-fossil-fuels.html\">UN Sees Irreversible Damage to Planet From Fossil Fuels &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #2d2b2c; font-family: akzidenz-grotesk-std-bloom, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 23px;\">Humans are causing irreversible damage to the planet from burning fossil fuels, the biggest ever study of the available science concluded in a report designed to spur the fight against climate change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 28px; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3125em;\">There\u2019s a high risk of widespread harm from rising global temperatures, including floods, drought, extinction of species and ocean acidification, if the trend for increasing carbon emissions continues, a panel convened by a United Nations body said today in Copenhagen. Humans can avoid the worst if they significantly cut emissions and do so swiftly, it said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 28px; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3125em;\">\u201cWe must act quickly and decisively if we want to avoid increasingly disruptive outcomes,\u201d UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told reporters in Copenhagen. \u201cIf we continue business-as-usual, our opportunity to keep temperature rises below\u201d the internationally agreed target of 2 degrees Celsius, \u201cwill slip away within the next decades,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 28px; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3125em;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN Sees Irreversible Damage to Planet From Fossil Fuels &#8211; BloombergHumans are causing irreversible damage to the planet from burning fossil fuels, the biggest ever study of the available science concluded in a report designed to spur the fight against climate change. There\u2019s a high risk of widespread harm from rising global temperatures, including floods, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[141,328,386,822],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-greenhouse-gases","tag-un"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}