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1.35C World Temperature Rise
19 Apr2017

The world with over 1°C temperature rise

April 19, 2017. Written by Tony Smyth. Posted in Blog

The first half of my book deals with nuclear energy, first as related to the Fukushima crisis, then with nuclear energy in general. The book then looks at renewables and renewable energy in the context of current and future global warming and climate change.

During 2016, aided by a severe El Nino, temperatures in many places on our planet rose by over 1°C.

Here is a link to an article that gives details of this rise and its consequence. It is well worth the read: The World at 1°C – March ’17

Highlights include:

  • The Arctic today has record low ice levels: in late winter it has about as much ice as it had midsummer 35 years ago.
  • New data is sharpening scientific fears that the Middle East and North Africa risks becoming uninhabitable in a few decades, as the availability of fresh water has fallen by two-thirds over the past 40 years. This research comes as evidence signals that nutrition and food security levels in the region have deteriorated sharply over the last six years.
  • In East Africa, drought continues, with international aid officials saying they are facing one of the biggest humanitarian disasters since World War II. Twenty million people there already face malnutrition.
  • Scientists have come up with a daunting roadmap for meeting the Paris Agreement goals, and achieving decarbonisation by 2050: global CO2 emissions will need to halve every decade. We are nowhere near this level of action; instead, we’re seeing the highest rates of CO2 growth on record.

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    GJS

    April 21, 2017 at 9:31 am | #

    Blog up and running. Keep people informed, this stuff is real and a threat. Looking forward to the book as well.

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    Jonathan L. Seagull

    April 27, 2017 at 7:22 pm | #

    Your book looks really interesting, I hope you release it on Kindle Unlimited!

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      Tony Smyth

      April 27, 2017 at 8:56 pm | #

      Thanks Jonathan. Its been finished for a while, its just the guy doing the final conversion to ebook format is very busy, hence the delay. It will be out on Kindle first then on Smashwords. In print on Amazon a bit later.
      I’m already researching for the sequel to it which will basically argue that the current economic paradigm is broken and that major change is ahead, whether we like it or not. Provisional title is ‘Inverting the pyramid’ plus it will have some subhead which may come to me as I write it. We live in interesting times.

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    Tony Smyth

    July 16, 2017 | #

    Hey. Yes its just been finished. Hurrah. BUT I’m off to Europe tomorrow so will release it a few days after I get back. Probably round August 9th. A book launch needs many things coordinated to improve publicity and I can’t do that from Dublin/Berlin. Besides which I’ve been incredibly busy these last 10 weeks, not just physically but mentally. A well earned rest and many pints of Guiness sounds good to me. Thanks for the interest.

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    Jonathan L.

    July 16, 2017 | #

    Hello Tony, I’m kind of curious — any news about the editing on your book?

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    Tony Smyth

    April 27, 2017 | #

    Thanks Jonathan. Its been finished for a while, its just the guy doing the final conversion to ebook format is very busy, hence the delay. It will be out on Kindle first then on Smashwords. In print on Amazon a bit later.
    I’m already researching for the sequel to it which will basically argue that the current economic paradigm is broken and that major change is ahead, whether we like it or not. Provisional title is ‘Inverting the pyramid’ plus it will have some subhead which may come to me as I write it. We live in interesting times.

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    Jonathan L. Seagull

    April 27, 2017 | #

    Your book looks really interesting, I hope you release it on Kindle Unlimited!

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    GJS

    April 21, 2017 | #

    Blog up and running. Keep people informed, this stuff is real and a threat. Looking forward to the book as well.

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