World headed for irreversible climate change in five years, IEA warns
Fiona Harvey, environment correspondent
guardian.co.uk, 9 November 2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/nov/09/fossil-fuel-infrastructure-climate-change"The world is likely to build so many fossil-fuelled power stations, energy-guzzling factories and inefficient buildings in the next five years that it will become impossible to hold global warming to safe levels, and the last chance of combating dangerous climate change will be "lost for ever", according to the most thorough analysis yet of world energy infrastructure.
"Anything built from now on that produces carbon will do so for decades, and this "lock-in" effect will be the single factor most likely to produce irreversible climate change, the world's foremost authority on energy economics has found. If this is not rapidly changed within the next five years, the results are likely to be disastrous."
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