News Forum - New climate change report says world has slim window

[Thaiger]

A United Nations panel of top scientists warned that the world now has just a slim chance to prevent the worst of climate change’s future harms. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says humanity must act fast and cut carbon pollution by almost two-thirds by 2035. The Paris climate agreement calls for nations to agree …

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[Grumpish]

Here we go again... save the planet. The planet doesn't need saving, on a geological timescale it is more than able to save itself. Worst case scenario for all of us is that Homo Sapiens may well be well and truly fubar'd, possibly headed for extinction. Something else will evolve to replace us. 

[Manu]

1 hour ago, Grumpish said:

Here we go again... save the planet. The planet doesn't need saving, on a geological timescale it is more than able to save itself. Worst case scenario for all of us is that Homo Sapiens may well be well and truly fubar'd, possibly headed for extinction. Something else will evolve to replace us. 

Did you actually read the article? here is one paragraph...

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The new report also preemptively responds to anti-climate change activists painting the report as doomsday fearmongering. They reinforced the point that scientists don’t claim that the world will end and all of humanity will die once the threshold is passed. Rather, living conditions will worsen at a faster pace and climate disasters like extreme weather that has increased in recent years will be accelerated even more.

This is what it is all about. This is about what kind of miserable world we will leave to our kids, grand kids and future generations.

[Khunmark]

We’re already experiencing some of those extreme weather patterns.