| 300 as Safest, Scientific Target for Atmospheric CO2 |
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350 is the wrong target: put the science first During 2008, US environment writer Bill McKibben and colleagues established the climate activist group 350.org, with the aim of spreading the message that policy targets need to reflect the scientific imperative. The campaign has harnessed many people and organisations' collective energy and has been successful in the United States, and internationally at such forums at COP14 in Poznan, in helping to educate people that targets such as 450 ppm (per million) carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are not acceptable, that the current level of carbon dioxide (387 ppm) is too high for a safe climate, and so our action must be zero emissions and a cooling of the planet. The important question now is whether 350 is a target based on the science, or one that is judged to be politically appropriate. David Spratt's full blog entry can be read at Climate Code Red: Climate Code Red | 350 is the wrong target: put the science first |
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