Monday, October 27, 2008

Only 42 years until the tipping point!!

Citizens urged to wage war vs climate change | ABS-CBN News Online Beta
Every Filipino citizen should be on a “war footing” and Philippine society “totally mobilized” as the world moves closer to irreversible climate change, a presidential adviser warned.

In an interview over dzMM Sunday, Heherson T. Alvarez, presidential adviser on global warming and climate change, told his former colleague in the Senate, Jose Lina, that there are only 42 years left before the world reaches the point where it may no longer be able to mitigate destructive climate change.
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“If we don’t cut our greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2050, which is only 42 years away, we will reach the tipping point,” he said.

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