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excerpt from: The Game-Changing Promise of a Green New Deal
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2020 Elections, Climate Emergency, Green New Deal

excerpt from: The Game-Changing Promise of a Green New Deal

By cCc|2020-01-04T05:15:52-05:00January 4th, 2020|2020 Elections, Climate Emergency, Green New Deal|

Green New Deal Article Excerpt […] It begins with the [...]

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Quote from ‘A Planet to Win – Why We Need a Green New Deal’
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Climate Emergency, Green New Deal

Quote from ‘A Planet to Win – Why We Need a Green New Deal’

By cCc|2020-01-15T04:16:07-05:00November 3rd, 2019|Climate Emergency, Green New Deal|

The Green New Deal burst onto the political stage when [...]

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“Missing” Words Matter

The IPCC’s Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C – Summary for Policymakers, states in section TS.2 Pg. 33 that:

…to achieve the goal of reaching “2050 net zero” and limit a dangerous overshoot of 1.5°C we need to reduce net anthropogenic (human caused) CO2 emissions by about 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, reaching net zero by 2050.

Did you see what happened? Politicians have conveniently chosen to skip the part that stresses the urgent need to “reduce CO2 emissions by about 45% from 2010 levels by 2030…”

This is a huge omission and manipulation of the meaning in the IPCC report. It minimizes the need for urgent and immediate action which is so vital to protecting us from an uncontrolled overshoot of 1.5°C. It’s not, choose your preference A or B, 2030 or 2050; those concepts and dates go together – it’s a linear relationship. A reduction in emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030 is on the path to B…”2050 net zero”…that’s how you get there. - Source