{"id":1408,"date":"2009-10-14T07:50:30","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T11:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2009-10-14T07:50:30","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T11:50:30","slug":"ipcc-to-us-stop-breathing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/10\/14\/ipcc-to-us-stop-breathing\/","title":{"rendered":"IPCC to US: stop breathing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/minx.cc\/?post=293607\" target=\"_blank\">Ace of Spades<\/a> reports on the latest &#8220;modest suggestion&#8221; from those whacky folks at the IPCC:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The IPCC says that rich industrial countries must cut emissions 25 to 40 percent by 2020 (from 1990 levels) if the world is to have a fair chance of avoiding catastrophic climate change. <strong>By contrast, the WBGU study says the United States must cut emissions 100 percent by 2020\u2014i.e., quit carbon entirely within ten years. <\/strong>Germany, Italy and other industrial nations must do the same by 2025 to 2030. China only has until 2035, and the world as a whole must be carbon-free by 2050. The study adds that big polluters can delay their day of reckoning by &#8220;buying&#8221; emissions rights from developing countries, a step the study estimates would extend some countries&#8217; deadlines by a decade or so.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Emphasis mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ace of Spades reports on the latest &#8220;modest suggestion&#8221; from those whacky folks at the IPCC: The IPCC says that rich industrial countries must cut emissions 25 to 40 percent by 2020 (from 1990 levels) if the world is to have a fair chance of avoiding catastrophic climate change. By contrast, the WBGU study says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,13],"tags":[245,240,39],"class_list":["post-1408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-usa","tag-climatechange","tag-globalwarming","tag-junkscience"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-mI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1409,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions\/1409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}