Climate change could pose ‘existential threat’ to humanity by 2050, advocates say

ABC News ^ | June 4, 2019 | JULIA JACOBO

[EdnaMode]

Climate change represents “a near-to midterm existential threat to human civilization,according to an analysis by the Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration.

The paper, published by the Australian think tank last week, gives one scenario in which by 2050 "accelerating climate-change impacts pose large negative consequences which might not be undone for centuries."

If policymakers fail to act on evidence presented in the current Paris Agreement, in which global human-caused greenhouse emissions will not peak until 2030, this will lock in about 3 degrees Celsius of warming, according to the scenario presented in the report.

There is "broad scientific acceptance" that tipping points for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and the seat-ice-free Arctic summer will pass well before 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, according to the report. The Greenland Ice Sheet will melt well before 2 degrees Celsius of warming, and a widespread permafrost loss and large-scale drought in the Amazon will occur by 2.5 degrees of warming.

Even with 2 degrees Celsius of warming, there is a "high likelihood of human civilization coming to an end," according to the report.

[EdnaMode]

But AOC said we had only 12 years. Now we have 31 years left? Look like things are improving!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Best news all day, I’ll say! Time to pop a cork!

[bgill]

Algore said the world would flood by 2012.

I won’t be around by 2050, so tuff noogies.

[for-q-clinton]

Too late. 14 years ago al gore gave us 12 years to fix it or it’s too late.

[tsomer]

"existential threat to human civilization"

No more civilization? Problem solved!

[Eddie01]

Wrong Wrong Wrong

It is March 21, 2048

[mass55th]

Who cares? I won’t be alive then.

[Windflier]

Climate “experts” also said the polar caps would be melted by 2013, and that snow would be a thing of the past.

[Chode]

or not...

[Army Air Corps]

We are no longer heeding “experts”, we are now listening to “advocates.”

[D Rider]

Advocates you say? What happened to the experts?

[entropy12]

I will be 110 years old in 2050....chances are slim to none I have to worry about that existential threat.

[Fungi]

Pure unadulterated crap... Why so far in the future? Because no one making the prediction can be held accountable and all is forgotten. The idiot leftist at Stanford, Paul Ehrlich, who wrote the “Population Bomb,” got everything wrong, predicting famines before the turn of the century. But he has never been taken to task for it by anyone in the media, and still holds a position at Stanford. Rabid leftists never stop their modus operandi: accuse, accuse, and accuse, and never stop accusing with phony accusations that no one can verify, now, or in the future.

[MtnClimber]

Why is the solution of every leftist orchestrated crisis socialism/communism (government control of energy use/control of means of production)? In the 1970’s when they were pushing industrial winter the solution was the same.

[Long Jon No Silver]

Do these crackpots ever give it a rest.

[toddausauras]

Oh well human race bye bye! PS I had a blast, grew up in the 70s, loved it!

[broken_clock]

It is March 21, 2048

That’s true cuz that’s when the Mayan calendar ends, oh wait... ;-)

[LukeL]

At 110 everything is an existential threat to your life.

[Telepathic Intruder]

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[dsrtsage]

Haven’t we all been dead already for over 40 years?