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"After a 10,000-year journey, human civilisation has reached a climate
crossroads: what we do in the next few years will determine our fate for
millennia.
That choice is laid bare in the landmark report published on Monday by the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), assembled by the world’s
foremost climate experts and approved by all the world’s governments. The next
update will be around 2030 – by that time the most critical choices will have
been made.
The report is clear what is at stake – everything: “There is a rapidly closing
window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all.”
“The choices and actions implemented in this decade [ie by 2030] will have
impacts now and for thousands of years,” it says. The climate crisis is already
taking away lives and livelihoods across the world, and the report says the
future effects will be even worse than was thought: “For any given future
warming level, many climate-related risks are higher than [previously]
assessed.”
“Continued emissions will further affect all major climate system components,
and many changes will be irreversible on centennial to millennial time scales,”
it says. To follow the path of least suffering – limiting global temperature
rise to 1.5C – greenhouse gas emissions must peak “at the latest before 2025”,
the report says, followed by “deep global reductions”. Yet in 2022, global
emissions rose again to set a new record."
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
