2009 – An increase in scientific and political division

Conflicting arguments from climate change scientists
The concept of tipping points, those being if indicators of a nonlinear growth curve so substantial that many scientists believe planetary damage from global warming can no longer be reversed has split the scientific community in two. Whereas 10 years before consensus was divided between camps believing in the existence of global warming as a threat versus a normal cyclical climate change, the issue now becomes whether or not warming is so pervasive as to be unstoppable and irrevocable.
Results are release stating that approximately 100,000 years ago a global warming event caused sea levels to rise by more than 20 feet. Once again mankind’s relative participation in climate change is questioned when scientific data is used as a means of discounting industrial global warming cause and effect.
The level of CO2 molecules in the atmosphere has now reached 385 parts per 1,000,000. The average five year temperature of the Earth is now 14.5° C. Both the warmest recorded and warmest calculable temperature in approximately 10,000 years.
Environmental changes as a direct result of global warming are now spreading at a rate of ¼ kilometer per year from the location of the equator northward and south. This rate of expansion makes it physically impossible for plant life to migrate thus placing thousands of species at risk for extinction.
Scientists at Stanford University release an analysis showing that the emissions from commercial industries are now responsible for 15 to 20% of all global warming.
The Copenhagen Climate Conference yields no significant agreements
The International Energy Agency in cooperation with the government of China announces that CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions from Chinese industry are expected to double over the next decade. China, still considered to be a developing nation, continues to avoid legitimate participation in global warming emissions reduction.
The long awaited climate change conference at Copenhagen fails to result in extension of the expiring Kyoto protocols for emissions controls. Even nonbinding regulations are shunned by the vast majority of United Nations conference participants.
China, now the world’s largest producer of greenhouse gases announces at the Copenhagen conference plans to reduce its carbon footprint by 40% by the year 2020. This marks the first time that China has agreed to reduce the acceleration of its emissions.
Economic slowdowns still yield increased emissions
Despite the existence of a massively recessed economy, global greenhouse gas emissions increased for the year 2009.
During a visit to Australia, religious leader, the Dalai lama suggests that global warming is so much so no longer a scientific agenda and now so human an agenda that mankind consider climate change as result of industrial pollution to be the number one priority for global legislative cooperation.
A Senate panel in the United States Congress proposes that the U.S. take responsibility for financial assistance to developing aka poor nations in decreasing greenhouse emissions produced as a direct result of US imports.