Using excessive energy causes an environmental disaster

United Nations climate and environmental experts warn that if the current size and speed of the original energy sources continues, the world will push itself into global environmental disasters.

Latest figures from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and International Energy Agency (IAEA) said the scale of global consumption of original energy sources (energy sources The amount in nature has not passed any transformation process) in 2010 was up to 500 exajoule (EJ), equivalent to 500 watts per second (W / s). This is close to the level of energy consumption that may occur in the worst global environmental disaster calculated by IPCC at 525 EJ / year.

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IAEA said that in 2010, coal is one of the largest sources of energy consumption, accounting for 27% of global energy consumption.

Coal is the cheapest but also " dirtiest " energy source for emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGE). In 2010, coal energy sources emitted at least 32 billion tons of CO2, nearly reaching the worst level of emissions from this energy source according to IPCC's calculation of 33 billion tons of CO2.

The German University of Potsdam Professor Anders Levermann stressed that 2010 is the hottest year in 130 years and that the level of emissions above is the year of the global economic crisis.

In the years when the global economy grew well, emissions could be much higher. Thus, the total energy consumption in 2010 was much higher than the worst scenario calculated by the IPCC for the year of global economic growth.

This new finding warns of the risk of humanity rushing to a global environmental disaster in the very near future.

According to the US Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the average global ocean and land surface temperatures in 2010 increased 0.6 degrees Celsius compared to the average temperature of the 20th century.

Unusually cold winters in Western Europe, unusually hot summers in Russia and Western Europe, major flooding history in Pakistan and Australia in 2010 is a disastrous consequence of climate change and also shows limitations of projections The most professional and modern weather newspaper.

The more greenhouse gases emit into the atmosphere, the more extraordinary global weather fluctuations go beyond human control and forecast.

The United States meteorological experts forecast that global temperatures could increase by 8 degrees Celsius by 2200.

In the past, the transition time from one extreme temperature to another extreme temperature between glacial periods lasted 50,000 years but now with increasing emissions being discharged into the atmosphere, this time has shortened to 50 times.

The rapid rise of global average temperature can provoke extreme weather disasters that people can hardly adapt. It can destroy water supplies, agriculture, the environment, incite migration waves and mass deaths.