Taliban fighters (file photo)
The Independent (UK): A large number of Pashtun politicians, tribal chiefs and intellectuals are against the Taliban, which is one of its biggest weaknesses… The central, conservative ideology of the Taliban is also responsible for its failure, as it is unacceptable for most Afghans, particularly the literate population…The media has played a key role in highlighting the cruelties of the Taliban on ordinary Afghans. Click here to read more (external link).
*GET READY
FOR
YOUR EXPULSION,
BOY !
After
18 years
of
extreme savageries !
You are obligated,
to
the
point
of no recovery.
TOP IT OFF
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NEXT 17 YEARS
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*YOUR
*CRAZY
scientists’
PREDICTIONS
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animal extinctions, and inhospitable environments for humans will become inevitable, scientists say.
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Livia Albeck-Ripka AUG—30—2018 08:00AM EST
Climate change is melting the ice caps, causing sea level rise, heatwaves, and more frequent natural disasters. But if governments worldwide do not take drastic action in the next 15 or so years to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, we could reach a “point of no return,” according to a study published today in the journal Earth System Dynamics.
The study, led by researchers from the Utrecht Centre for Complex Systems Studies and at Oxford University, modeled the probability of reaching climate targets depending on how quickly and how effectively various countries switched to renewable energy. The researchers found that unless drastic action is taken starting now, we have already missed our deadline to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, and that we are rapidly approaching what the scientists dubbed the “point of no return”: when keeping warming below 2 degrees Celsius before the end of the century — as laid out in the Paris Climate Agreement — will be unlikely.
“We show that there are strict deadlines for taking climate action,” Henk Dijkstra, a professor at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and one of the study’s authors said in a statement. Dijkstra said there was “very little time” left before the Paris targets became infeasible, even with drastic emissions reductions. “We hope that ‘having a deadline’ may stimulate the sense of urgency to act for politicians and policy makers,” he added.
Two degrees Celcius is generally agreed to be the safe threshold for global temperature rise. If the earth warms more than this, the earth could unleash its own cascading impacts like the release of carbon dioxide trapped beneath Arctic ice (which has already begun), while other systems, like coral reefs, might simply be pushed beyond the point of recovery. With every degree, say scientists, the risks of food insecurity, species extinction and environments becoming inhospitable to human habitation increases.
In the December 2015 Paris Agreement, global leaders agreed to meet various goals in attempt to curb emissions, and keep global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius by 2100. But the researchers said that it was “questionable” if even even those commitments were sufficient. (At the moment, no major industrialized country is even on track to meet those original pledges.) “If the Paris Agreement targets are to be met, there may be very few years left for policy makers to start cutting emissions,” the researchers write in the paper.
“To reach any time of climate target, we need to bring emissions to zero at some point,” Matthias Aengenheyster, a doctoral researcher at Oxford University and the study’s lead author, told The Outline. “I think essentially what we’re trying to do is give some sort of overview about the options and say, ‘Ok, this is what would be the impact of having this adjustment; if we expand renewable energy this fast, these are the consequences,’” he added.
To work out the latest possible date that countries could begin ambitiously reducing their fossil fuel emissions and still meet the 2 degree goal, the researchers compared two scenarios in which the global share of renewable energy rose by 2 percent and 5 percent respectively. In the 2 percent scenario, countries would have to begin drastically reducing emissions before 2035. In the second scenario — where countries switch to renewable energy at a faster rate — the globe would have an extra 10 years before it reached the “point of no return.”
While the share of renewable energy has risen from almost nothing to 3.6 percent in the past two decades, we still have a long way to go before emissions reductions are significantly reduced, said Rick van der Ploeg, a professor of economics at Oxford University who also took part in the study. “Considering the slow speed of large-scale political and economic transformations,” van der Ploeg said, “decisive action is still warranted.” He and his colleagues also considered a “negative emissions” scenario, in which carbon dioxide was removed from the atmosphere. But even in this case, the “point of no return” could only be delayed by up to 10 years.
Aengenheyster, the lead author, said it helped to think about the various actions governments could take like “screws” which could be tightened or loosened in various combinations to help meet the goals set under the Paris Agreement. “We really try to look at the impact of these different screws we can modify,” Aengenheyster told The Outline, adding that the numbers in the study were not simply results, but depended on “actual choices” made by human beings
NOW; DON’T
GET EMOTIONAL.
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JUST, TAKE IT EASY !
*Nightmarish
choices and predictions
for
the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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=
THE REGIONSL WESTERN
*SUPREME AUTHORITIES
TO THINK ANOUT THEIR PRESENCE
IN
AFGHANISTAN.
*YOU
“BETTER WISE UP” !
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•••••••••••••••••••••••••
REAL
DIRE CONSEQUENCES.
*Hizbullah Khan
(The fake writer)
IS
A
PAID
“STOOGE”
(Semi-retarded).
*YOU
“CRAZY PEOPLE”
ARE
LIVING
IN
A
cocooned
“DREAM WORLD”.
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AND STILL- ALL AFTER
MASSACRING
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS
OF
INNOCENTS
IN
AFGHANISTAN.
*JUST;
PACK IT ALL UP
AND
LEAVE, MAN !
*
You traitor! You talk under the cloak of security of the Amerikeens, but would be raped by the Taliban. Go back to Pakistan.
You pig, still, do not know much about
your real master- we liberate you and we will feed you !
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Mark
my words !
*And; the invaders
will
bowdown, as well.
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Again; mark
my words !
A
mystery
that is hidden
in
real
Afghanistan !
YOU MISFIT INTERNATIONAL
PARASITES;
WILL NEVER
CATCH
IT !
*GO AWAY- AND
NEVER
“LOOK BACK” !
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