
Greenhouse gas emissions must start declining within the next 10–15 years
and urgent cuts of at least 50 percent are needed by 2050, climate
scientists have declared. More than 200 experts signed the 'Bali Climate
Declaration by Scientists' on the fourth day of the UN climate change
conference in Bali, Indonesia. "It is time to start thinking in terms of
what climate science tells you. [Emissions cutting] is expensive and
involves some risks, but we can say that the risk will be less if we start
now," Richard Somerville of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San
Diego.
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