{"id":46,"date":"2018-05-23T22:36:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T22:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/?p=46"},"modified":"2018-05-24T02:39:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T02:39:47","slug":"the-harsh-arithmetic-of-the-paris-accord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/23\/the-harsh-arithmetic-of-the-paris-accord\/","title":{"rendered":"The Harsh Arithmetic of the Paris Accord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/rtulip.net\/yahoo_site_admin\/assets\/images\/How_Far_the_World_is_Off_Track_on_Climate_Change.134143011_std.png\">chart comparing business as usual to climate goals<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2017\/11\/06\/climate\/world-emissions-goals-far-off-course.html\">New York Times<\/a> shows that all Paris pledges by 2030 will only cut annual world emissions by less than 10%. As such, Paris emission reduction pledges should be seen as no more than &#8216;icing on the cake&#8217;, with the body requiring carbon removal.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/rtulip.net\/yahoo_site_admin\/assets\/images\/How_Far_the_World_is_Off_Track_on_Climate_Change.134143011_std.png\" alt=\"BAU\/Paris\/2 degree CO2 projections\" \/><br \/>\nThe key numbers are roughly as follows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This chart comparing business as usual to climate goals from the New York Times shows that all Paris pledges by 2030 will only cut annual world emissions by less than 10%. As such, Paris emission reduction pledges should be seen as no more than &#8216;icing on the cake&#8217;, with the body requiring carbon removal. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[12,23,24,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}