We’re ruining Earth, and we’ve only got 10 years to fix it.

Posted by Ivan Garcia on January 29th, 2007 filed in news, planet earth

In The Age today We’re ruining Earth, scientists warn.

DROUGHTS will be longer, flooding rains will be rarer but heavier. Cyclones will hit harder. Violent storms and extreme heatwaves will strike more frequently. Evaporation will suck up scarce inland water. Sea levels will creep up half a metre. Oceans will be so acidic that in some places shells and reefs will dissolve.

And humanity, not nature, will be to blame.

Indeed The Times is warning Last warning: 10 years to save world.

THE world has just 10 years to reverse surging greenhouse gas emissions or risk runaway climate change that could make many parts of the planet uninhabitable.

There are two great urgencies. One is to remove the CO2 we’ve dumped into the air, and the other is to break the link between energy and CO2. The first we can do now with massive reforestation programmes. The second will take all the ingenuity we can muster. But both are essential if we are to keep living on Earth as we know it.

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