Don't overstate 1.5 degrees C threat, new IPCC head says – DW – 07/30/2023
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Jim Skea, the new head of the UN's IPCC climate panel, said it was not helpful to imply that temperature increases of 1.5 degrees Celsius posed an existential threat to humanity.

In short, we aren’t on track to an apocalyptic extinction, and the new head is concerned that rhetoric that we are is making people apathetic and paralyzes them from making beneficial actions.

He makes it clear too that this doesn’t mean things are perfectly fine. The world is becoming and will be more dangerous with respect to climate. We’re going to still have serious problems to deal with. The problems just aren’t insurmountable and extinction level.

    • @HWK_290English
      1•1 year ago

      61,000 people died of heat in Europe this last month. It’s happening now, though 😢

      And yes lots more will change: more frequent storms, rising acidity of the oceans, range shifts and local extinctions. More problems require even more and varied solutions.

      We’ve had technology to relieve dependence on fossil fuels for decades, but the lack of initiative to speak publicly and forcefully about climate change and fear of being seen as biased on behalf of scientists let oil and coal lobbyists drive the narrative and crushed such competition in the 1990s. Per kwh, such forms of energy and now more economically and ecologically viable then ever before. Speak up now!