Open AccessWatson Urges Measures to Minimize Climate Change
Author(s) -
Showstack Randy
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1002/2013eo010002
Subject(s) - watson , greenhouse gas , climate change , presentation (obstetrics) , political science , environmental science , economic history , environmental ethics , natural resource economics , history , economics , philosophy , computer science , geology , medicine , oceanography , natural language processing , radiology
Professor Sir Robert Watson is not optimistic that atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions will be reduced before there is a 2‐degree Celsius increase, and possibly a much larger increase, in global temperatures above pre‐industrial temperature levels, he said recently. “There is no evidence politically that we are moving there, so clearly one has to be quite concerned,” said Watson, the chief scientific adviser to the U.K. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. He made the comments at the Union Frontiers of Geophysics Lecture and during a later presentation at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco in December.