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

ABC News ^ | June 4, 2019 | JULIA JACOBO

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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.

[stevem]

Since we will all be dead in 12 years,nothing in 2050 poses a threat.

[trebb]

Yep - big relief in this household....dodged a bullet...

OK - /s

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

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

That’s what the think-tank “scientists” are counting on, too. That way, they won’t hear Nelson mocking them.

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

There is that word again, could. Know what else “could” happen. Liberals decide they had enough, and self euthanize in protest.