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"Scientists are warning that we are now in “uncharted territory” as a result of
human-driven climate change in a new “state of the climate” report that was
signed by 15,000 researchers from 163 countries.
Researchers emphasized the current suffering caused by record-breaking climate
extremes and raised alarms about the possibility of widespread societal and
ecological collapse in the future, while also decrying recent increases in
subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, which is the primary driver of climate
change.
The 2023 report, published on Tuesday in the journal
BioScience, is the
latest update in an annual series called
World Scientists Warning of a Climate
Emergency. Since 2019, scientists have been tracking escalating threats that
warming global temperatures present to humans and ecosystems around the world.
The new report, led by Oregon State University ecologist William Ripple, warns
that 2023 was a particularly devastating year of extreme wildfires, floods,
heatwaves, and other natural disasters that are amplified by climate change.
The authors suggest that temperatures this past July may well have been the
warmest on Earth over the past 100,000 years, which they called “a sign that we
are pushing our planetary systems into dangerous instability.”
“As scientists, we are increasingly being asked to tell the public the truth
about the crises we face in simple and direct terms,” Ripple and his colleagues
wrote in the report. “The truth is that we are shocked by the ferocity of the
extreme weather events in 2023. We are afraid of the uncharted territory that
we have now entered.”
“Global daily mean temperatures never exceeded 1.5-degree Celsius (°C) above
pre-industrial levels prior to 2000 and have only occasionally exceeded that
number since then,” the researchers noted. “However, 2023 has already seen 38
days with global average temperatures above 1.5°C by 12 September—more than any
other year—and the total may continue to rise.”"
Via Diane A.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
