Posted on 07/29/2021 12:24:22 AM PDT by Qui is
Thousands of scientists have repeated calls for urgent action to tackle the climate emergency, warning that several tipping points are now imminent.
The researchers, part of a group of more than 14,000 scientists who have signed on to an initiative declaring a worldwide climate emergency, said in an article published in the journal BioScience on Wednesday that governments had consistently failed to address “the overexploitation of the Earth”, which they described as the root cause of the crisis.
Since a similar assessment in 2019, they noted an “unprecedented surge” in climate-related disasters, including flooding in South America and Southeast Asia, record-shattering heatwaves and wildfires in Australia and the US, and devastating cyclones in Africa and South Asia.
For the study, scientists relied on “vital signs” to measure the health of the planet, including deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions, glacier thickness and sea-ice extent and deforestation. Out of 31 signs, they found that 18 hit record highs or lows.
For example, despite a dip in pollution linked to the COVID-19 pandemic, levels of atmospheric CO2 and methane hit all-time highs in 2021.
Greenland and Antarctica recently showed all-time low levels of ice mass and glaciers are melting 31-percent faster than they did just 15 years ago, the authors said.
Ocean heat and global sea levels set new records since 2019, and the annual loss rate of the Brazilian Amazon reached a 12-year high in 2020.
Echoing previous research, the researchers said forest degradation linked to fire, drought and logging was causing parts of the Brazilian Amazon to now act as a source of carbon, rather than absorb the gas from the atmosphere.
Livestock such as cows and sheep are now at record levels, numbering more than four billion and with a mass exceeding that of all humans and wild land mammals combined, they said.
‘Address the root cause’ Tim Lenton, the director of the University of Exeter’s Global Systems Institute and study co-author, said the recent record-breaking heat waves in western United States and Canada showed that the climate had already begun to “behave in shocking, unexpected ways”.
“We need to respond to the evidence that we are hitting climate tipping points with equally urgent action to decarbonise the global economy and start restoring instead of destroying nature,” he said.
The researchers said there was “mounting evidence that we are nearing or have already crossed” a number of climate tipping points.
News | Climate Change Thousands of scientists warn climate tipping points ‘imminent’ Researchers say ‘overexploitation of the Earth’ has seen many of its ‘vital signs’ deteriorate to record levels.
Greenland and Antarctica recently showed all-time low levels of ice mass and glaciers are melting 31- percent faster than they did just 15 years ago, the authors said [File: Bob Strong/Reuters] Greenland and Antarctica recently showed all-time low levels of ice mass and glaciers are melting 31- percent faster than they did just 15 years ago, the authors said [File: Bob Strong/Reuters] 28 Jul 2021 Thousands of scientists have repeated calls for urgent action to tackle the climate emergency, warning that several tipping points are now imminent.
The researchers, part of a group of more than 14,000 scientists who have signed on to an initiative declaring a worldwide climate emergency, said in an article published in the journal BioScience on Wednesday that governments had consistently failed to address “the overexploitation of the Earth”, which they described as the root cause of the crisis.
KEEP READING Parched villages in India coal-mining hubs hunt for scarce water IMF warns of growing poverty, unrest and geopolitical tensions Unusual cold weather in Brazil sends coffee prices soaring ‘Doomed to stay’: The dying villages of Mexico’s Lake Cuitzeo Since a similar assessment in 2019, they noted an “unprecedented surge” in climate-related disasters, including flooding in South America and Southeast Asia, record-shattering heatwaves and wildfires in Australia and the US, and devastating cyclones in Africa and South Asia.
For the study, scientists relied on “vital signs” to measure the health of the planet, including deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions, glacier thickness and sea-ice extent and deforestation. Out of 31 signs, they found that 18 hit record highs or lows.
For example, despite a dip in pollution linked to the COVID-19 pandemic, levels of atmospheric CO2 and methane hit all-time highs in 2021.
Greenland and Antarctica recently showed all-time low levels of ice mass and glaciers are melting 31-percent faster than they did just 15 years ago, the authors said.
Ocean heat and global sea levels set new records since 2019, and the annual loss rate of the Brazilian Amazon reached a 12-year high in 2020.
Echoing previous research, the researchers said forest degradation linked to fire, drought and logging was causing parts of the Brazilian Amazon to now act as a source of carbon, rather than absorb the gas from the atmosphere.
Livestock such as cows and sheep are now at record levels, numbering more than four billion and with a mass exceeding that of all humans and wild land mammals combined, they said.
‘Address the root cause’ Tim Lenton, the director of the University of Exeter’s Global Systems Institute and study co-author, said the recent record-breaking heat waves in western United States and Canada showed that the climate had already begun to “behave in shocking, unexpected ways”.
“We need to respond to the evidence that we are hitting climate tipping points with equally urgent action to decarbonise the global economy and start restoring instead of destroying nature,” he said.
The researchers said there was “mounting evidence that we are nearing or have already crossed” a number of climate tipping points.
These include melting of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets, which may now be irreversible on a centuries-long time scale, regardless of how or if the human race slashes its emissions.
They said increasing ocean deoxygenation and warming waters were threatening warm-water coral reefs, upon which half a billion people rely for food, income and storm protection.
“Given these alarming developments, we need short, frequent, and easily accessible updates on the climate emergency,” said the study.
News | Climate Change Thousands of scientists warn climate tipping points ‘imminent’ Researchers say ‘overexploitation of the Earth’ has seen many of its ‘vital signs’ deteriorate to record levels.
Greenland and Antarctica recently showed all-time low levels of ice mass and glaciers are melting 31- percent faster than they did just 15 years ago, the authors said [File: Bob Strong/Reuters] Greenland and Antarctica recently showed all-time low levels of ice mass and glaciers are melting 31- percent faster than they did just 15 years ago, the authors said [File: Bob Strong/Reuters] 28 Jul 2021 Thousands of scientists have repeated calls for urgent action to tackle the climate emergency, warning that several tipping points are now imminent.
The researchers, part of a group of more than 14,000 scientists who have signed on to an initiative declaring a worldwide climate emergency, said in an article published in the journal BioScience on Wednesday that governments had consistently failed to address “the overexploitation of the Earth”, which they described as the root cause of the crisis.
KEEP READING Parched villages in India coal-mining hubs hunt for scarce water IMF warns of growing poverty, unrest and geopolitical tensions Unusual cold weather in Brazil sends coffee prices soaring ‘Doomed to stay’: The dying villages of Mexico’s Lake Cuitzeo Since a similar assessment in 2019, they noted an “unprecedented surge” in climate-related disasters, including flooding in South America and Southeast Asia, record-shattering heatwaves and wildfires in Australia and the US, and devastating cyclones in Africa and South Asia.
For the study, scientists relied on “vital signs” to measure the health of the planet, including deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions, glacier thickness and sea-ice extent and deforestation. Out of 31 signs, they found that 18 hit record highs or lows.
For example, despite a dip in pollution linked to the COVID-19 pandemic, levels of atmospheric CO2 and methane hit all-time highs in 2021.
Greenland and Antarctica recently showed all-time low levels of ice mass and glaciers are melting 31-percent faster than they did just 15 years ago, the authors said.
Ocean heat and global sea levels set new records since 2019, and the annual loss rate of the Brazilian Amazon reached a 12-year high in 2020.
Echoing previous research, the researchers said forest degradation linked to fire, drought and logging was causing parts of the Brazilian Amazon to now act as a source of carbon, rather than absorb the gas from the atmosphere.
Livestock such as cows and sheep are now at record levels, numbering more than four billion and with a mass exceeding that of all humans and wild land mammals combined, they said.
‘Address the root cause’ Tim Lenton, the director of the University of Exeter’s Global Systems Institute and study co-author, said the recent record-breaking heat waves in western United States and Canada showed that the climate had already begun to “behave in shocking, unexpected ways”.
“We need to respond to the evidence that we are hitting climate tipping points with equally urgent action to decarbonise the global economy and start restoring instead of destroying nature,” he said.
The researchers said there was “mounting evidence that we are nearing or have already crossed” a number of climate tipping points.
These include melting of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets, which may now be irreversible on a centuries-long time scale, regardless of how or if the human race slashes its emissions.
They said increasing ocean deoxygenation and warming waters were threatening warm-water coral reefs, upon which half a billion people rely for food, income and storm protection.
“Given these alarming developments, we need short, frequent, and easily accessible updates on the climate emergency,” said the study.
The authors repeated previous calls for transformative change in six areas: eliminating fossil fuels, slashing pollutants, restoring ecosystems, switching to plant-based diets, moving away from indefinite growth models and stabilising the human population.
They also called for climate-change education to be included in school core curriculums globally in order to raise awareness of the issue.
In the immediate term, they proposed a trio of emergency responses to the climate emergency.
These consisted of “a significant carbon price”, a global phase-out and ban of fossil fuels, and the development of strategic climate reserves such as restoring and maintaining carbon sinks and biodiversity hot spots.
“We need to stop treating the climate emergency as a stand-alone issue – global heating is not the sole symptom of our stressed Earth system,” said William Ripple, a distinguished professor of ecology at Oregon State University’s College of Forestry.
“Policies to combat the climate crisis or any other symptoms should address their root cause: human overexploitation of the planet,” Ripple said.
He added: “We need to quickly change how we’re doing things, and new climate policies should be part of COVID-19 recovery plans wherever possible.”
If they can't frighten us into submission with COVID, an insurrection show trial, racism or Olympic hard luck story,they go back to the well and dredge up more climate fear porn.
SMDH.😱
Once all of the vaxxers are gone, things should be fine.
Root cause. Hmmm. Where have I heard that phrase before?
Even before that time any true scientist would have said data collected was invalid because people had known for centuries the sun was a variable star and it was not possible to separate influences for any mathematical computations. Now that it is possible to separate the influence of the sun the analysis of such a complicated interaction is very likely still beyond mathematical reasoning. Therefore, political rhetoric must be substituted for application of the scientific method.
Hoping all democrats vaxx.
LOL. Anything can be labeled a “climate disaster”.
HOW TO
1. Find a thing anywhere in the world, no matter how local or globally insignificant
2. Call it a disaster
3. Call it a Climate Disaster
i am now actually rooting for “climate change”
seems the only way to get the totalitarian socialists out of power
Translation: Our grants are running low and need to be increased.
Wow. I've been predicting this for some time now. It happened even faster than I thought.
Notice how the Left has merged the covid pandemic into their climate change crisis to call for "quickly changing how we're doing things"? That didn't take long.
The nonvaxxers are the new climate change deniers. The vaccinators are the new climate change enablers. Fits perfectly into their new scheme of things. Exploit what you can to move their agendas forward.
The marriage of the Green New Deal into the New World Pandemic. Perfect fit to manipulate and control the population for the achieving the wet dream of the Marxist Left, the Socialist/Communist Revolution.
These people are so transparently obvious. They don't fool anyone with a brain. But there are so many who don't think for themselves that they can exploit.
“Livestock such as cows and sheep are now at record levels, numbering more than four billion and with a mass exceeding that of all humans and wild land mammals combined”
Well, we’ll just have to go back to
shooting wild game for our protein
addictions. I’m sure there will be
a reaction from the peta crowd. I
actually tried to tally up the number
of methane emitting herbivores. I gave
up, but did manage to discover that
moose contribute over 300 million
metric tons of methane to the atmosphere
every year.
(Hence my tag line since I’ve been a
Freeper, a jab at climate scientists).
The Laurentide ice sheet covered most of
the northern US in ice a mile thick,
10,000 years ago. It didn’t melt
overnight.
That big orange thing in the sky
is left out of most present day
climate change calculations.
Al Jazeera said, 14,000 scientist said...the world is at a tipping point...
Problems:
1) AL Jazeera
2) What the scientists said, did the say this collectively - all at once? Or, individually? Was this at a mass meeting or did Al Jazeera visit these scientists at home or their place of work?
3) World tipping. Is the world go to tip on its side or it going to tip completely over? If it tips completely over will the North Pole Be the South Pole and vice versa? If the world tips completely over, will it really matter? Will my WiFi still work?
All good questions.😉
As I said in my post,the article gave me a good chuckle.
As long as the regime in Beijing forbids real Freedom of the Press then this effort is all in vain. Anyone who honestly crunches the numbers can see this.
“Will my WiFi still work?”
No. You will have to reverses the wires on your electrical outlets. ;-)
The tipping point is that the climate is beginning to cool and their jig will be up soon.
Tipping point. Uh-oh. Paging Rep. Hank Johnson.
If climate change comes up as a discussion item, I like to point out that Chicago was under a mile of ice not that long ago, and where were the prehistoric SUVs to create the climate change to end that? It seems to make people think a little, and break out of the propaganda they’re being fed.
Translation: Thousands of scientists do not believe in a sovereign God.
“ 14,000 scientist said...”
When the media, such as Al Jazeera (hey, didn’t al gore purchase Al Jazeera a few years ago?), when they ever gather 14,000 medical doctors to tell us their theories about prevention and treatment of covid 19, then perhaps i might read any piece such as this one with more than a mere, “sigh, what is this new crap?” But so far its just one. Fauci is the only md we hear from on covid
Big Government, Big Tech, Big Biz, Big Pharma, Big Med...
Now we can add science to the list of institutions controlled by Deep States.
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