[open-sustainability] Delayed action raises costs of climate change, study says

Fri Jan 4 21:27:51 UTC 2013

Kevin Anderson and Alice Bows of Manchester Tyndall Centre have done
extensive work on what it would take/have taken to keep below two degrees.

This slideshow, from July 2011 is a starting point. Things have gotten
bleaker since then, of course.

http://www.slideshare.net/DFID/professor-kevin-anderson-climate-change-going-beyond-dangerous

HMS Two Degrees - well, that ship has sailed, I'm afraid...

Marc Hudson
co editor of Manchester Climate Monthly
manchesterclimatemonthly.net

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:

> Happy New Year to you all!
>
> I thought this might be of interest to some of you:
>
>
> http://www.euractiv.com/climate-environment/delayed-action-raises-costs-clim-news-516847
>
> While modelling in this area is obviously very complicated, I've always
> wanted to be able to have a rough and ready sense of how different climate
> policies might help us to limit warming to below 2 degrees.
>
> Does anyone know of anything like this?
>
> All the best,
>
> Jonathan
>
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