On date 11/9/2010, New York Climate Action Council, release an interim report mentioning that as part of their mission 2050 to reduce greenhouses gases up to 80%, they are going to do following activities: (this is excerpt from the Interim Report)

During 2011, the Council will complete additional analyses and design of the policy options and transmit its recommendations in a Climate Action Plan. That plan will include the following:
• Economic assessments, including both the cost of inaction and macroeconomic impacts in New York, such as creating jobs and retaining some of the $38 billion dollars that is exported annually from New York to pay for energy imports
OV-4 New York State Climate Action Council
Interim Report 11-9-10
• Refinement of policy options based on public comment
• Assessment of policy interactions (reinforcement and conflicts) among individual policy
options; there are many such interactions, given the multi-sector nature of aggressive GHG mitigation policies
• Creation of a mitigation cost curve
(comparing net costs and reduction
potentials of individual climate policy
options)
• Assessment of the GHG reduction
potential of the full policy package, and
determining whether it puts New York on
the path to meet the 40 by 30 benchmark
target and the 80 by 50 long-term goal
• Further analysis of funding options and
availability of capital, as well as of
societal benefits and externalities.

Now, the only concern here is that, being a New Yorker tax payer for years and using all of the default energy consumption modes in new york, transport, gas, electricity, i wonder whether my tax payments are really helping to fund this project, if yes, where can i find the update on this, releasing an interim report, building policies without people concern would not going to help to reduce 80% of greenhouses gases in New York.

No offense but it’s not a Cliche`, it’s a reality.

Recently, i got a chance to watch and read the latest IPCC working group study on climate change, since many of facts and information of the study group were very detail, i summarize the whole study in  one page, hope people would find it useful.

This was one of the report which was presented by Thomas Stocker at SREX (Special report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Climate Change Adaptation), Durban, South Africa, 30th November 2011,

Changes in climate extremes and their impacts on the natural physical environment from IPCC on Vimeo.

Again IPCC representative Thomas Rocker, claim that they still confirm that:

• Warming in the climate system is unequivocal;
• Most of the observed increase in global average temperature since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations;
• Continue greenhouse gas emissions at or above current rates would cause further warming and induce many changes in the global climate system during the 21st century that would very likely be larger than those observed during the 20th century.

The general conclusion on which many scientist agree are:

1. A changing climate leads to changes in the frequency, intensity, spatial extent, duration, and timing of extreme
weather and climate events, and can result in unprecedented extreme weather and climate events.
2. There is evidence from observations gathered since 1950 of change in some extremes. Confidence in observed
changes in extremes depends on the quality and quantity of data and the availability of studies analyzing these
data, which vary across regions and for different extremes. Assigning “low confidence” in observed changes of a
specific extreme on regional or global scales neither implies nor excludes the possibility of changes in this extreme.
3. There is evidence that some extremes have changed as a result of anthropogenic influences, including increases in
atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases.
4. Models project substantial warming in temperature extremes by the end of the 21st century

The major findings by working group of IPCC, which were also shocking were:

• It is very likely that the number of extreme warm days and nights has increased worldwide since 1950, and this is likely due to the increase of greenhouse gas concentrations.
• In the future, for the higher emissions scenarios, what is today a 1-in-20 year hottest day will become a 1-in-2
year event. This means the frequency of these extreme events will increase by a factor of about 4 in the next 30
to 40 years and by a factor of 10 by the end of the 21st century.
• In consequence, heat waves are projected to very likely last longer, to occur more frequently and to increase in
intensity.
• Heavy precipitation has intensified on a global scale and with medium confidence this is already attributed to
anthropogenic climate change. It is likely that a 1-in-20 year event of heavy precipitation will become a 1-in-5 to
1-in-15 year event by the end of the 21st century.COP-17 WGI Presentation
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• Tropical cyclone activity is in the focus of many countries because their impact can be devastating. While
there is low confidence of observed long-term trends over the past four decades, is likely that maximum wind
speed will increase in the 21 century in response to the warming.
• More intense and longer droughts have been observed in some regions, and there is medium confidence that
they will intensify in the 21st century, particularly in S Europe, in the Mediterranean, Central North America and
Mexico, NE Brazil and Southern Africa.

If you are interested to read the text of whole report, please click here

wind turbine development

IPCC  releases a special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation on June 7 2011. According to this report the demand for energy services is increasing and as of 2008 the share of total primary energy is still dominated by fossil fuels with 34.6% of oil, 28.4% of Coal and 22.1% of Gases. However the good news is that the demand for  RE (Renewable Energy) has grown up to 12.9% with 10.2% of Bio Energy. Nuclear energy is still at 2.0% .
The most interesting fact was that the technical potential of RE to supply energy services is exceeding current demands. This seems surprised fact for me. Also RE (Renewable Energy)  price is becoming competitive day by day, which again a good news for Global Warming community. According to the Report and according to my own research i believe that the future of RE is in Wind Turbines with advancement in technologies we can easily see in the near future Future wind Turbines to generate 20,000 KW of energy with 250 m height of Hub.
Please see the detailed report below.

Thanks to IPCC, Ms Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of UNFCC, Mr. Mama Konate, chair person of SBSTA for their detailed report on RE.