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My top 3 impressions up-front: The sealevel projections for the year 2100 have been adjusted upwards again. The IPCC gives more consideration to the large long-term sea-level rise beyond the year 2100. And here is the key sea-level graphic from the Summary for Policy Makers: Source: IPCC AR6, Figure SPM.8.
In other words, the claim shows a lack of knowledge and is a well-known old argument that I commented on Realclimate.org in 2007. While temperatures provide a measure of the Earth’s climate, it is even better to use the global sealevel , which provides a far more reliable measure. See for instance Benestad (2016).
During the initial negotiations of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Convention), AOSIS proposed to set up an “International Climate Fund” to finance adaptation, and an “International Insurance Pool” as a separate entity to provide financial insurance specifically against sealevel rise.
The issue of funding for loss and damage was first raised by the Alliance of Small Island States in the early 1990s, when the group proposed that the financial burden of sealevel rise in low-lying and small island developing countries be borne by the world’s most industrialized nations. and other developed nations. In the U.S.,
Even before adoption of the 1992 Framework Convention, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) had proposed an “International Insurance Pool” to pay vulnerable countries based on observed sealevel rise. The first explicit use of the term L&D was in the 2007 Bali Action Plan , in a section on enhanced action for adaptation.
It is worth noting that if all ice melt in Antarctica, sealevel would rise by 60 meters (around 200 feet). The world has a five percent chance of limiting climate change to 2 C by the end of the century, thus staying in line with what agreed during the ParisAgreement. A systemic problem requires a systemic change.
Executive Order 80 supports the 2015 ParisAgreement and sets several goals for the state to meet by 2025: Reduce state greenhouse gas emissions by 40% from 2005 levels. Reduce energy use per square foot in state-owned buildings by 40% from 2002-2003 levels.
It was because of smoke during the 2007 wildfire season in the United States, the second worst at the time for acreage burned. degree Fahrenheit limits set by the ParisAgreement to avoid catastrophic climate impacts—more than double the 22 percent of the US as a whole that would exceed that temperature. million acres burned.
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