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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by Eric Worrall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Should we nominate a special day \u2013 crying climate scientist day?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018The stakes could not be higher\u2019: world is on edge of climate abyss, UN warns<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damian Carrington<\/a> Environment editorFri 10 May 2024 00.00 AEST<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The world is on the verge of a climate abyss, the UN has warned, in response to a Guardian survey that found that hundreds of the world\u2019s foremost climate experts expect global heating to soar<\/a> past the international target of 1.5C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A series of leading climate figures have reacted to the findings, saying the deep despair voiced by the scientists must be a renewed wake-up call for urgent and radical action to stop burning fossil fuels and save millions of lives and livelihoods. Some said the 1.5C target was hanging by a thread, but it was not yet inevitable that it would be passed, if an extraordinary change in the pace of climate action could be achieved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Guardian got the views of almost 400 senior authors of reports by the authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Almost 80% expected a rise of at least 2.5C above preindustrial levels, a catastrophic level of heating, while only 6% thought it would stay within the 1.5C limit. Many expressed their personal anguish<\/a> at the lack of climate action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C is hanging by a thread,\u201d said the official spokesperson for Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, the UN secretary general. \u201cThe battle to keep 1.5C alive will be won or lost in the 2020s \u2013 under the watch of political and industry leaders today. They need to realise we are on the verge of the abyss. The science is clear and so are the world\u2019s scientists: the stakes for all humanity could not be higher.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/article\/2024\/may\/09\/world-is-on-verge-of-climate-abyss-un-warns<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I clicked the link to the personal reactions link<\/a>, see if there was anything interesting. I didn\u2019t bother reading all of it, because most of it seemed to be the usual rehashed tedium. They\u2019re all sad and depressed because we are not doing what the scientists tell us to do. Not one word about nuclear energy, the zero carbon energy source which actually works. From what the Guardian wrote they want us to embrace climate communism (restricted choices, social change) and renewables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I tried finding the UN source of the climate abyss comment, but all I saw were previous UN \u201cclimate abyss\u201d warnings. Or maybe it\u2019s the same warning, but the abyss is still really close but at the same time many years away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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World on the verge of climate \u2018abyss\u2019, as temperature rise continues: UN chief<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

19 April 2021 Climate and Environment<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Earth\u2019s temperature continues to rise unabated, with 2020 being one of the three warmest years on record, as extreme weather events combine with the COVID-19 pandemic, impacting millions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the World Meteorological Organization\u2019s (WMO<\/a>) flagship State of the Global Climate report, the global average temperature in 2020 was about 1.2-degree Celsius above pre-industrial level.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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State of Global Climate 2020:#COVID19<\/a> combined with extreme weather in a double blow for millions but failed to put a brake on #climatechange<\/a> and accelerating impacts.
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