By Duggan Flanakin ~
Eight years ago the World Economic Forum warned that a climate catastrophe was a “real possibility.” And last August, Politico’s informed us that, “Climate catastrophe is here!”
Choi based his conclusion on the Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which he announced contained no scenario in which the world avoids surpassing 1.5o C of global warming.
And what does this mean? Earth science student Joe Marshall sums it up this way: “Above 1.5o C of warming, many parts of our planet start to become uninhabitable.”
In 2018, climate scientists warned that, without drastic action now, Earth will face unending extreme drought, devastating wildfires, massive floods, deadly hurricanes, and widespread famines that will more than decimate the world’s population. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, we had 20 years to rid the…
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