I've posted previously on the UNFCCC COP process: - If I ran the
UNFCCC COP process... (posted 18 Feb 2011) - Key Topics for the
UNFCCC COP Process, part 1 (posted 21 Feb 2011) - Key Topics for
the UNFCCC COP Process, part 2 (posted 24 Feb 2011) While much
of the UNFCCC negotiation remains focused on the notion that we
want to avoid 2°C of warming (actually, I suppose the meetings
remain focused on even more fundamentally political issues, such
as responsibility), the World Bank recently published a report
"Turn Down the Heat" indicating that we are actually on a path
to 4°C warming by 2100. They produced an infographic to
accompany the report's release: |Companion infographic to the
World Bank report "Turn Down the Heat."| The science of climate
change tells us that setting our time horizon at 2100 is
actually a highly arbitrary choice. We could set a goal at 2100,
work to meet that (and I mean actual actions, not just more
negotiating over who and what and where and how much $$$), and
still see additional w