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Climate change scientist James Hansen says current ‘half arsed’ plans to reduce emissions will lead to dangerous climate change and calls for an honest carbon price to cut fossil fuel use  Former head of Nasa’s Goddard Center James Hansen says the UN meeting is on the wrong track by seeking a 2C maximum rise in temperatures. Photograph: Jenny Bates for The Guardian John Vidal Thursday 3 December 2015  10.22 GMT Last modified on Friday 4 December 2015 19.26 GMT Share on Pinterest Share on LinkedIn Share on Google+ Shares 1,565 Comments 299   Save for later One of the world’s leading atmospheric scientists has told the UN that its present attempt to limit emissions is “half-arsed and half-baked” and risks handing the next generation a climate system that is out of their control. James Hansen , former head of Nasa’s Goddard Center and the man who raised awareness of climate change  in a key Senate hearing back in 1988  said tha

  Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore delivers his speech about the importance of China in the global warming during a meeting at China Pavillon as part of the COP21, United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Paris, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015. (AP Photo/Francois Mori) LE BOURGET, France - The latest news from the U.N. climate conference in Paris, which runs through Dec. 11. All times local: 7:45 p.m. Researchers say a simulation has showed that it is "technically possible" to reach a climate deal and succeed in limiting global warming. Climate Interactive, a research group that models the effects of cutting emissions, took their models to the Paris climate talks Friday and invited regular people to role play, with MIT professor John Sterman as the United Nations chief. Following the first round of negotiations, national pledges left global warming temperatures unaffected as no team was ready to compromise. After more than an hour of arguments over w

orld leaders have gathered in Paris to try to hammer out a plan to slow the machinery of climate change. They are guided by scientists who know which gauges to monitor. Here’s how experts say these pieces fit together. Read:  Paris climate treaty may not be enough to keep temperature rise below 2°C Published Nov. 30, 2015   |   CLICK THE GAUGES OR SCROLL DOWN TO LEARN MORE U.S. 5.8 -20 -10 0 10 20 – + Ocean heat Over 1977-2000 avg. in 10²² joules -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 – + Surface temp. Deviation from 1951 to 1980 avg. 12 9 6 3 0 Arctic Sea Ice Millions of square kilometers 200 300 400 500 600 CO₂ P.P.M. 700 1,400 2,100 Methane P.P.B. 20 10 0 -10 -20 + – Antarctica Rate of change 20 10 0 -10 -20 + – Greenland Rate of change E.U. 4.1 China 10.7 0 10 20 30 40 50 Worldwide GH gas emissions Gigatons per year (2012) 7.8 8.0 8.2 Ocean pH More acidic 0 +20 +40 +60 +80 +100 Sea level Change in millimeters since 1993 Land ice Rate of change, in hundreds of billi