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rangerrebew:
‘The stakes could not be higher’: world is on edge of climate abyss, UN warns
Top climate figures respond to Guardian survey of scientists who expect temperatures to soar, saying leaders must act radically

Climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target
Damian Carrington Environment editor
Thu 9 May 2024 10.00 EDT
 
The world is on the verge of a climate abyss, the UN has warned, in response to a Guardian survey that found that hundreds of the world’s foremost climate experts expect global heating to soar past the international target of 1.5C.

A series of leading climate figures have reacted to the findings, saying the deep despair voiced by the scientists must be a renewed wake-up call for urgent and radical action to stop burning fossil fuels and save millions of lives and livelihoods. Some said the 1.5C target was hanging by a thread, but it was not yet inevitable that it would be passed, if an extraordinary change in the pace of climate action could be achieved.

The Guardian got the views of almost 400 senior authors of reports by the authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Almost 80% expected a rise of at least 2.5C above preindustrial levels, a catastrophic level of heating, while only 6% thought it would stay within the 1.5C limit. Many expressed their personal anguish at the lack of climate action.

“The goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C is hanging by a thread,” said the official spokesperson for António Guterres, the UN secretary general. “The battle to keep 1.5C alive will be won or lost in the 2020s – under the watch of political and industry leaders today. They need to realise we are on the verge of the abyss. The science is clear and so are the world’s scientists: the stakes for all humanity could not be higher.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/09/world-is-on-verge-of-climate-abyss-un-warns

rangerrebew:
 ****sheep**** :facepalm2: :wtf: :bs: 8bs8

The_Reader_David:
If they really believed it, they would be demanding a massive push to build nuclear power plants.

Wingnut:
There is big money in pushing the ruse.  Big money behind it and bigger money to be made off of it.

GtHawk:
There have been predictions, all of them wrong, of climate calamities for well over a hundred years, we are gonna burn up, freeze, flood, run out of food with massive starvation and death. And now another bogeyman article, I can only assume that the true meaning of ‘The stakes could not be higher’ is the opportunity for charlatans, opportunists, ManBearPig and autistic high school dropouts to cash in.


From 2022

Tomorrow is Earth Day 2022 and marks the 52nd anniversary of Earth Day, so it’s time for my annual CD post on the spectacularly wrong predictions that were made around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970…..

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/18-spectacularly-wrong-predictions-were-made-around-the-time-of-the-first-earth-day-in-1970-expect-more-this-year/


https://www.britannica.com/list/10-failed-doomsday-predictions

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