Jessica Wolff Discusses Efforts to Reduce The Health Care Industry's Carbon Footprint (October 24th)
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Listen Now Earlier this month the United Nation's Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC), the world's definitive body on the subject, concluded we have just 12 years, or until 2030, to avoid global temperatures rising above 1.5 degrees Celsius (or 2.7F). We've already warmed by 1C. Among other consequences, if we warm to 2.0C (or 3.6F) we will lose 99 percent of our coral reefs. We are presently on track to warm to 4C by the end of this century - that the Trump administration, via a National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) environmental impact stated, admitted in August. This means we will have to reduce carbon emissions by 50% by 2030 and achieve net zero emissions by 2050. (The US is historically the largest emitter of greenhouse gasses and currently second behind China. Worldwide, we currently dump 42 billion tons of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere annually and the amount has been again climbing since last year.) As I noted in a November 13, 2017 3 Quarks Daily essay (a link to which was posted on this podcast that month), there is no climate analog for this century
Jessica Wolff Discusses Efforts to Reduce The Health Care Industry's Carbon Footprint (October 24th)
Jessica Wolff Discusses Efforts to Reduce The…
Jessica Wolff Discusses Efforts to Reduce The Health Care Industry's Carbon Footprint (October 24th)
Listen Now Earlier this month the United Nation's Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC), the world's definitive body on the subject, concluded we have just 12 years, or until 2030, to avoid global temperatures rising above 1.5 degrees Celsius (or 2.7F). We've already warmed by 1C. Among other consequences, if we warm to 2.0C (or 3.6F) we will lose 99 percent of our coral reefs. We are presently on track to warm to 4C by the end of this century - that the Trump administration, via a National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) environmental impact stated, admitted in August. This means we will have to reduce carbon emissions by 50% by 2030 and achieve net zero emissions by 2050. (The US is historically the largest emitter of greenhouse gasses and currently second behind China. Worldwide, we currently dump 42 billion tons of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere annually and the amount has been again climbing since last year.) As I noted in a November 13, 2017 3 Quarks Daily essay (a link to which was posted on this podcast that month), there is no climate analog for this century