Thread:Ursuul/@comment-29771477-20170616133250

A new paper was published on Wednesday by the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis (CCCma). Their research seems to suggest that an apocalypse may come much faster than we think: As soon as 2025. This is a worrisome fact, given that these scientists are some of the leading scientists in the world. According to one of the scientists who conducted the study: “Now, more than at any time in our history, our species needs to work together. We face awesome environmental challenges: climate change, food production, overpopulation, the decimation of other species, epidemic disease, acidification of the oceans. Together, they are a reminder that we are at the most dangerous moment in the development of humanity.” There is not a single point here that is inaccurate or hyperbolic. Every year the Earth’s global temperature has gone up by 2 degrees, and 2016 was the hottest year ever. Although 2017 probably won’t break last year’s record, the UK’s Met Office projects that it “will still rank among the hottest years on record.” Other studies also emphasize that there is a rapidly closing window for meaningful action on climate change. As the authors of one peer-reviewed paper put it: “The next few years offer a brief window of opportunity to minimize large-scale and potentially catastrophic climate change that will extend longer than the entire history of human civilization thus far. Policy decisions made during this window are likely to result in changes to Earth’s climate system measured in millennia rather than human lifespans.” Our society needs to stop pretending as if climate change isn’t a threat, and take action. When there is a crisis attributable to climate change there will be a response. There will be no disputing the scientific evidence then. Without a concerted collective effort to avert catastrophe, the future could be as bad as any dystopian sci-fi writer has imagined.

Sliiiiightly believable???? 