2021.07.29 10:21
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Climate tipping points are now imminent, scientists warn
Around 13,000 researchers have called for urgent action to slow down the climate emergency as extreme weather patterns shock the world. They listed three core measures.
The call comes as extreme weather causes catastrophes across the world
Thousands of scientists reiterated calls for immediate action over the climate crisis in an article published Wednesday in the journal BioScience.
"The extreme climate events and patterns that we've witnessed over the last several years — not to mention the last several weeks — highlight the heightened urgency with which we must address the climate crisis," said Philip Duffy, co-author of the study and executive director of the Woodwell Climate Research Center in the US state of Massachusetts.
Two years ago, more than 10,000 scientists from around 150 countries jointly declared a global climate emergency. They are now joined by over 2,800 more signatories in urging the protection of life on Earth.
Since the 2019 declaration, Earth has seen an "unprecedented surge" in climate-related disasters, researchers noted.
What are the signs?
For the study, researchers relied on "vital signs" to measure planetary health, including greenhouse gas emissions, glacier thickness, sea-ice extent, and deforestation. Out of 31 signs, scientists found that 18 hit record highs or lows.
The year 2020 was the second-hottest year since records began, scientists said. And earlier this year, the carbon dioxide concentration in the Earth's atmosphere was higher than at any time since measurements began.
The authors noted that all-time low levels of ice mass have been recorded in Greenland and Antarctica. Glaciers are melting 31% faster than they did just 15 years ago, they added.
Meanwhile, the annual loss rate of the Brazilian Amazon reached a 12-year high in 2020.
Tim Lenton, director of the University of Exeter's Global Systems Institute and co-author of the study, said the recent record-breaking heatwave in the 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 decarbonize the global economy and start restoring instead of destroying nature," he said.
How can we respond to the climate crisis?
Researchers reiterated calls for transformative change, listing three main emergency responses in the immediate term:
Climate change should be included in core curricula in schools worldwide to raise awareness, the authors said.
Scientists also urged slashing pollutants, stabilizing the human population, and switching to plant-based diets.
"We need to stop treating the climate emergency as a standalone issue — global heating is not the sole symptom of our stressed Earth system," said William Ripple, a lead author of the study and 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."
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We already heard and saw what the 'climate change' should mean but I feel like ‘Climate tipping points are now imminent, scientists warn’ as the article in Deutsch Welle pointed out - see the attachment-.
Though we all have to leave this world sooner or later, not very long, it looks like we will see these many scary natural disasters before we leave!!!
The more we do see these man-made disasters these days, the more it looks like Nature finally starts to revenge on humans for the abuse.
Worrying,
BB Lee
2021.07.29 13:51
2021.07.30 12:02
Just got back from the private luncheon meeting and climate change was one of two topics we shared over the meal. The other topic was a sort of extension of the first in regard to the future with such a pessimistic view. Indeed, many worry about increasing the chance for Tramp back in 2024 to wipe out all the leftover/accomplishments Biden made once and for all!!!
So sad to learn more about how much Trumpists caused Climate change and their shameless behavior made my blood boiled.
BB Lee
P.S. I have trouble opening the attached DW News with my software on this tablet!. Wonder Steve could fix it for others? I tried to upload again with a different source but failed!!!
2021.07.31 18:14
Please click below to see Dr. BB Lee's attachment.
https://afroviral.com/climate-tipping-points-are-now-imminent-scientists-warn-dw-28-07-2021/
Climate tipping points are now imminent, scientists warn | DW | 28.07.2021
2021.08.01 06:45
Magic touch, Steve, thaaaaaanks!!!!
Indeed, the pandemic distracted us such serious climate change through the last few years but apparently either the flooding or wildfire or both seems to be norm throughout the world in these days and many other countries do have same problem.
One of my close friends in Turkey wrote me about same condition- I didn't know they also have a bad wildfire repeatedly like us here in the U.S.-.
BB Lee
The U.S. was one of the major contributors to this tragedy of the earth,
all under the stupidity of the Trump regime and the idiotic Republican followers.
Hell, we are not getting into the tipping point. We are there already!!