During a gaggle with reporters, he (1) reiterated he has still not budged beyond $1.5 trillion as a top-line number for the reconciliation bill, (2) once again expressed doubts about climate policies that he believes “penalize” carbon-intensive industries, (3) had reservations about expanding Medicaid coverage and adding benefits to Medicare, (4) seemed open to a wealth tax, and (5) thought a framework deal - though not full legislative language ready for a vote - could come this week.
JOE MANCHIN (D-W.Va.) yet again this morning. "Policy makers have enough information.The reconciliation bill is gradually shifting from a Bernie Sanders product to a much more business-friendly and targeted package. "We have all the evidence we need to show we are in a climate crisis," said three-time IPCC co-author Sonia Seneviratne, a climate scientist at ETH Zurich who doubts she will sign up for a fourth report. If it isn't, at least one scientist questioned whether the IPCC should even continue to issue reports. Value of IPCC reports debatedīritish Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he hoped the report would be "a wake-up call for the world to take action now, before we meet in Glasgow." "It is still possible to forestall many of the most dire impacts," Barrett said. The report said those commitments are essential. More than 100 countries have made informal pledges to achieve "net zero" human-caused carbon dioxide emissions sometime around mid-century, which will be a key part of climate negotiations this fall in Scotland.
Already, associated flooding has nearly doubled in many coastal areas since the 1960s, with once-in-a-century coastal surges set to occur once a year by 2100. Sea level rise has picked up speed, as polar ice sheets melt and warming ocean water expands. "But the more we limit warming, the more we can avoid or slow down those changes."Įven if global warming were halted at 1.5 C, the average sea level would still rise about two to three metres, and maybe more.
"We are now committed to some aspects of climate change, some of which are irreversible for hundreds to thousands of years," said IPCC co-author Tamsin Edwards, a climate scientist at King's College London. Some harm from climate change - dwindling ice sheets, rising sea levels and changes in the oceans as they lose oxygen and become more acidic - is "irreversible for centuries to millennia," the report said. 3:50 Sea level rise, some other harms are irreversible 3:50 Wildfires have ignited across Greece in the wake of the nation's most protracted heat wave in 30 years - which sent temperatures soaring to 45 C for days - creating bone-dry conditions.
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