A key finding in the latest IPCC climate report has been widely misinterpreted, according to scientists involved in the study. In the document, researchers wrote that greenhouse gases are projected to peak "at the latest before 2025". This implies that carbon could increase for another three years and the world could still avoid dangerous warming.... Continue Reading →
UN Warns Climate Change Is Here And It’s Devastating
(slightly dated, but now almost everything is valid...) The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued its gravest and most stark warning yet: climate change is here and might be irreversible. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/tyt/live Source site.
(We are posting this after the report came out, it becomes obvious why upon reading it...) Talks stretch past deadline as governments are accused of trying to water down findings The world must abandon fossil fuels as a matter of urgency, rather than entrusting the future climate to untried “techno-fixes” such as sucking carbon out... Continue Reading →
Scientists urge end to fossil fuel use as landmark IPCC report readied
The latest IPCC report makes clear that we have everything we need to combat rising temperatures. The only question is whether we care enough about the future of humanity to do it If you want to celebrate a great human accomplishment, forget the moon landing or Purple Rain. Celebrate this. For the last 34 years,... Continue Reading →
There’s a Silver Lining to the U.N.’s Final Warning on Climate Change
I have seen many scientific reports in my time, but nothing like this…
In case you missed it, (with full text too) ... Summary: Remarks by António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, to the press conference launch of IPCC report. Description: I have seen many scientific reports in my time, but nothing like this. Today's IPCC report is an atlas of human suffering and a damning... Continue Reading →
The Secretary General of the UN models how to think about climate change I can remember when some of us organized what may have been the planet’s first truly huge climate march, with 400,000 people descending on New York in 2014. Then UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon came to walk with us for a few... Continue Reading →
The World’s Top Diplomat Has Had It Up to Here
The oil giant’s massive plan to drill in Guyana’s waters comes as the UN Secretary General warns of fossil fuels as a “blight on investment portfolios.” “Investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure is moral and economic madness,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released part of its latest... Continue Reading →
ExxonMobil Announces $10 Billion Oil Investment the Same Day IPCC Signals End for Fossil Fuels
Because they're down to the nub At 5 a.m. this morning we were supposed to get the report from Working Group 3 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It didn’t come—because delegates were still arguing. And the arguments were over the two most fundamental questions of the climate era: must we get off fossil... Continue Reading →
IPCC talks go down to the wire
Climate panel calls for "rapid and deep" transition away from fossil fuels. Nations have moved too slowly to curb climate change, and now must take swift and aggressive steps if they hope to avoid the worst impacts of global warming, the world’s top scientists warned on Monday. Greenhouse gas emissions must peak within the next... Continue Reading →
‘We are at a crossroads’: New IPCC report says it’s fossil fuels or our future
The dangers of climate change have been well reported for years. But what's had less attention is how the world could effectively tackle the issue. Yesterday, UN scientists laid out a plan that they believe could help people avoid the worst impacts of rising temperatures. The report, by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change... Continue Reading →
Climate change: IPCC scientists report five ways to save the planet
BERLIN (AP) — Temperatures on Earth will shoot past a key danger point unless greenhouse gas emissions fall faster than countries have committed, the world’s top body of climate scientists said Monday, warning of the consequences of inaction but also noting hopeful signs of progress. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the report by the Intergovernmental... Continue Reading →
empowerment & inner transformation... 