Mankind dominant cause of global warming says IPCC report
(Vatican Radio)Top climate experts are blaming mankind more than ever as the main
cause of global warming. That is the conclusion of a major report, by the UN-sponsored
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on the state of the world’s climate. The
final document was approved at the end of a week-long meeting in Stockholm and released
Friday. The report also says that a recent slowdown in the rate of global warming
is unlikely to last and shows that there will be even more heatwaves, droughts, floods
and a creeping rise in sea levels unless urgent action is taken to cut greenhouse
gas emissions. Almost 200 governments have agreed to work out a U.N. deal by the
end of 2015 to combat global warming, partly by shifting from fossil fuels towards
renewable energies. UK based aid organisation, Christian Aid is calling on governments
to heed the warnings of the IPCC report. “In the future to really stop climate change
we need to start fundamentally challenging that fossil fuel base that our economy
is on and that’s where the political impasse has come and we really need the politicians
in the next year or two to grasp that by the nettle, just really make decisions to
transform how we get our energy”, says the organisation’s Senior Climate Change Advisor,
Dr Alison Doig. She also says that the Christian community has a role to play in
the debate, “there’s a real moral issue I think in terms of, what they (Christian
Churches) can bring forward in this debate.” Listen to Lydia O’Kane’s interview with
Alison Doig