Abstract
Now that the measure of CO2 emissions has broken through 410 on the standard Keeling curve (Earth CO2 website), one may start drawing a scenario for climate change repercussions, here for the Asian continent. It pollutes most of all continents in terms of both greenhouse gases and many other pollutants. The threats to mankind comes in the form of sea level rise, fresh water shortage, less of potable water, shrinking of lakes and rivers, deoxygenation of oceans, less fish food and agriculture produce, energy shortages, omnipresent air conditioning, urban smog, water and sea pollution due to sewage and failures with landfills. Asia, hosting more than half of mankind, will suffer massively from global warming with millions of ecological refugees. The UN’s program, the COP21 by the UNFCCC, cannot stop Asia from reaching Hawking irreversibility, because it entails too weak global governance that is cheatable. The promise of complete decarbonisation is an illusion.
Highlights
Global average temperature will most probably be larger than the COP21 objective of plus 2 degrees Celsius
Lakes in Indonesia are shrinking and increasingly polluted. 2.6.4 Kazakhstan: Oil and Gas Here, we have a nation very much occupied with the catch-up strategy, as its exit from the Soviet Union worked like a “take-off” stage
The Asian continent has become the leader of the global market economy, demanding enormous amounts of energy, which results in Asia having more than 50% of global CO2
Summary
Global average temperature will most probably be larger than the COP21 objective of plus 2 degrees Celsius. A few days before the start of the UN global environment reunion COP23 (6-13 November 2017) in Bonn, the major study Climate Science Special Report: Fourth National Climate Assessment (USGCRP, 2017) https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4174364/Climate-Science-Special-Report-2017.pdf) was published in Washington. It examines the global warming problematic from the point of view of the US and the world, based upon years of research by a large group of US scholars. It presents an impressive list of climate change impacts upon the US territory and points decisively at human causes. Roughly 60 per cent of global GDP comes from Asian countries, planning large increases in energy consumption up to 2040, resulting, most likely in massive CO2 emissions, globally
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