Posted on 10/05/2018 8:49:43 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The warning signals of climate change that have hit people around the world in the last few months must be heeded by national governments at key meetings later this year, political leaders and policy experts are urging, as the disruption from record-breaking weather continues in many regions.
This week, scientists are gathering in South Korea to draw together the last five years of advances in climate science to answer key questions for policymakers. What is expected to emerge will be the strongest warning yet that these unusual occurrences will add up to a pattern that can only be overcome with drastic action.
Thousands of the world’s leading climate experts collaborate on the periodic reports, released roughly every half-decade. They have grown clearer over the years in the certainty of their evidence that climate change is occurring as a result of human actions, and firmer in their warnings of the disruptive consequences.
This time, the scientists will attempt to answer whether and how the world can meet the “aspiration” set in the Paris agreement of 2015 to hold warming to no more than 1.5C, beyond which many low-lying states and islands are likely to face dangerous sea level rises.
While the dangerous weather of the first half of 2018 has raised concerns worldwide that we are seeing climate change in action, many leading experts told the Guardian they were optimistic that political and business leaders this year would help set the world on a different course to avoid the worse predictions of untrammelled warming.
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Baloney. They have lied so much in the last 20 years that I can’t take anything they say seriously. It’s the sun, stupid.
Then what made the climate change before humans got technology?..........................
Good job on this one, Joe.
Nice blend of ‘appeals to authority’ and utter hysteria.
“””Why the next three months are crucial for the future of the planet”””
Because that’s when we’ll know if the USA is headed down the socialist hellhole road or not?
This article, in some form, has appeared weekly for the last 20 years.
So, has chrissy balsy ford weighed in yet?
Good for a laugh when the drought in Europe revealed low water marks from hundreds of years ago. A pox upon these commies.
For the future of the planet the guardian must be closed.
Behold the coming apocalypse as predicted on and around Earth Day, 1970:
“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.” — Harvard biologist George Wald
“We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.” — Washington University biologist Barry Commoner
“Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.” — New York Times editorial
“Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.” — Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich
“Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born… [By 1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.” — Paul Ehrlich
“It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,” — Denis Hayes, Chief organizer for Earth Day
“Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions…. By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.” — North Texas State University professor Peter Gunter
“In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution… by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half.” — Life magazine
“At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.” — Ecologist Kenneth Watt
“Air pollution...is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.” — Paul Ehrlich
“By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate… that there won’t be any more crude oil. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, ‘Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say, ‘I am very sorry, there isn’t any.’” — Ecologist Kenneth Watt
“[One] theory assumes that the earth’s cloud cover will continue to thicken as more dust, fumes, and water vapor are belched into the atmosphere by industrial smokestacks and jet planes. Screened from the sun’s heat, the planet will cool, the water vapor will fall and freeze, and a new Ice Age will be born.” — Newsweek magazine
“The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.” — Kenneth Watt
Thread is useless without a chicken little cartoon pic.
I love it when stories say things like, “Hottest day in 75 years, which proves global warming!”
Which begs the question: Was it hotter 75 years ago, then?
There’s been a lack of solar activity, we’ve been cool a while now, and could get worse.
This week, scientists are gathering in South Korea to draw together the last five years of advances in climate science to answer key questions for policymakers.
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Why don’t they meet over the Internet and prevent a lot of carbon pollution?
Fiona’s a dips#it
Good thing they’re jetting there from all over the world and spewing a bunch of carbon in the process instead of say, videoconferencing which would emit almost no carbon. Way to show us you actually mean what you say and are prepared to live up to what you advocate Gaia Worshipers!
Yes, I’ve not seen a sunspot for quite a while.
Solar minimum...
Like forcing American citizens to pay their hard earned wages into a global warming ponzi scam.
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