The article “Climate Change Will Not Be Dangerous for a Long Time” by Scientific American talks about the decrease of global warming compared to predictions made by scientists. The article also states that due to this slower warming that is happening right now, the world will have enough time to prepare itself and develop new sources of technology that will assist humanity in fighting against the consequences of global warming. If climate change remains at the same rate as it is nowadays and sensitivity continues low, the world will only start to suffer more severe effects from global warming in about one century from now. According to the article, there is no reason to rush and try to develop subsidizing and inefficient technologies to fight global warming.

The world has been trying in the past few years to make plans and promises that it will be in fact capable of tackling climate change. But these plans and promises have not yet been really efficient. About ten years ago the world derived something close to 87% of its primary energy from fossil fuels. As of today, the world is still in that same range and no improvements have been made in order to make that statistic better. There has been in fact a significant decline in nuclear power, but this has been matched by the rise in renewable resources. One aspect that has room for improvement is the use of wind and solar in renewables, since it is still only 1% of that proportion. The main job our scientists have nowadays is to spend the next decades trying to come up with new researches and technologies that are more efficient in order to tackle global warming.

Reference: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-will-not-be-dangerous-for-a-long-time/