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Scientists Warn of ‘Unprecedented Surge in Climate-Related Disasters’

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Scientists Warn of ‘Unprecedented Surge in Climate-Related Disasters’

Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. 31 Jul 2021

Two Oregon State University professors have doubled down in declaring a worldwide “climate emergency” and warning of “untold suffering” if fossil fuels are not eliminated.

An article published Wednesday in the online journal BioScience asserts that there is “mounting evidence that we are nearing or have already crossed tipping points associated with critical parts of the Earth system, including the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, warm-water coral reefs, and the Amazon rainforest.”

The article’s three principal authors are William J. Ripple and Christopher Wolf of Oregon State’s Department of Forest Ecosystems & Society and Thomas M. Newsome of the School of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Sydney.

These same authors published a similar article 20 months ago promising “untold human suffering” without deep and lasting shifts in human behavior and now lament that their warning went unheeded, meeting instead with “unrelenting business as usual.”

The trio is back to decrying “an unprecedented surge in climate-related disasters since 2019, including devastating flooding in South America and Southeast Asia, record shattering heat waves and wildfires in Australia and the Western United States, an extraordinary Atlantic hurricane season, and devastating cyclones in Africa, South Asia, and the West Pacific.”

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https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2021/07/31/scientists-warn-of-unprecedented-surge-in-climate-related-disasters/

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