Climate crisis: 11,000 scientists warn of ‘untold suffering’
Statement sets out ‘vital signs’ as indicators of magnitude of the climate emergency
Damian Carrington, The Guardian, 5 Nov 2019
World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2020
William J Ripple, Christopher Wolf, Thomas M Newsome, Phoebe Barnard, William R Moomaw
BioScience, Volume 70, Issue 1, January 2020, Pages 8–12, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz088
Scientists have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any catastrophic threat and to “tell it like it is.” On the basis of this obligation and the graphical indicators presented below, we declare, with more than 11,000 scientist signatories from around the world, clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency.
World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2021
William J Ripple, Christopher Wolf, Thomas M Newsome, Jillian W Gregg, Timothy M Lenton, Ignacio Palomo, Jasper A J Eikelboom, Beverly E Law, Saleemul Huq, Philip B Duffy, et al.
BioScience, biab079, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab079
28 July 2021
….there has been an unprecedented surge in climate-related disasters since 2019, including devastating flooding in South America and Southeast Asia, record shattering heat waves and wildfires in Australia and the Western United States, an extraordinary Atlantic hurricane season, and devastating cyclones in Africa, South Asia, and the West Pacific (see supplemental file S2 for attribution information). There is also mounting evidence that we are nearing or have already crossed tipping points associated with critical parts of the Earth system, including the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, warm-water coral reefs, and the Amazon rainforest. Given these alarming developments, we need short, frequent, and easily accessible updates on the climate emergency.
The Sixth Extinction?
There have been five great die-offs in history. This time, the cataclysm is us.
Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, May 18, 2009
Vertebrates on the brink as indicators of biological annihilation and the sixth mass extinction
Gerardo Ceballos, Paul R. Ehrlich, and Peter H. Raven
PNAS June 16, 2020 117 (24) 13596-13602; first published June 1, 2020; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1922686117
Accelerated modern human–induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction
Gerardo Ceballos, Paul R. Ehrlich, Anthony D. Barnosky, Andrés García, Robert M. Pringle and Todd M. Palmer
Science Advances 19 Jun 2015: Vol. 1, no. 5, e1400253. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1400253
Why We All Need To Become Crusading Scholars
Rupert Read, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia
Universities do not deny the seriousness of anthropogenic dangerous climate change directly, but they are often complicit through its near-absence across much of the curriculum. This is partly born of a fear of ‘politicizing’ the problem. Yet unless we are willing to address the profoundly political and ethical questions raised by dangerous anthropogenic climate change, we have no hope of avoiding worst-case scenarios or of adapting transformatively to already locked-in harms.
In particular, there is an almost total avoidance of realism about climate breakdown and the risk of eco-driven societal collapse, in our universities. Instead, the assumption is typically that we are going to make it with our systems basically intact. This is pathological.
Earth Emergency - PBS Documentary Series
December 29, 2021
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3. Interview with narrator Richard Gere: 'Earth Emergency' looks at the impact of climate change, MSNBC News, Dec 30, 2021
Burning Questions: Covering Climate Now
World Channel - Special, Oct 25, 2022
Will we act in time? Extraordinary journalists report on stories of struggle and resilience from around the world as families from Senegal to Iowa and Colorado to Samoa lose everything they care about to drought, fire and rising seas. Co-hosted by NBC Today’s Al Roker and NBC News’ Savannah Sellers, this climate special bringing together work by award-winning journalists explores who is paying the price while world leaders wrangle and corporate interests resist change.
Learn more >> https://worldchannel.org/special/burning-questions-covering-climate-now
