IEA Believes That We Have Five Years To Prevent Irreversible Climate Change

A recent analysis by the IEA indicates that we may be reaching the point of no return in combating climate change. The planned deployment of carbon producing facilities has a "lock in" effect. Once it is put into service it will generate carbon for the 20 year life cycle of infrastructure. The US and China are the biggest problems. The GOP will defeat any plan to limit the deployment of fossil consuming infrastructure. China is moving forward with the development of renewable energy sources but it plans to develop coal burning plants in parallel to meet current power requirements. Plans to eliminate nuclear power plants also present a problem. It would be equivalent to adding the total carbon emissions of France and Germany to the atmosphere,