American lady (Vanessa virginiensis)
Ice Age National Scientific Reserve Unit, Wisconsin, USA
2019-07-13 _F2A1689aaa
“New report paints dire picture of America's future as climate crisis accelerates”
“The COP27 climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, along with recent advances in US climate policy, may give the impression the world is doing something about an existential crisis, and we’re taking it seriously. The truth is, global emissions continue to rise, and will continue to do so for at least the next several years, even as scientists warn fossil fuel use must be slashed immediately.”
Why isn’t material action being taken?
“The climate crisis is creating a “cycle of worsening inequality,” one federal policies helped to create.”
“It’s really important to realize that 1.5 (degrees of warming) was never safe”
Val Eisman Comment:
“I just read Europe is warming twice as fast. The Middle East is warming the fastest and Africa, too. So how could the US be warming faster than global average??
"The US is warming faster than the global average
The world already has warmed a little more than 1 degree Celsius, according to the report, with the US warming faster than the global average.
The goal of the Paris Agreement — which is being discussed this week in Egypt — is to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or at most to 2 degrees Celsius. To do it, the US needs to reach “net-zero” carbon emissions by about 2050, which will require a total clean energy transformation, and will likely require technology to suck our previous planet-warming emissions back out of the atmosphere.
For the United States to reach net-zero by 2050, the country’s emissions need to fall by a whopping 6% per year. US emissions fell just 12% over the course of nearly two decades between 2007 and 2019.
CLIMATE DISASTERS ARE GETTING WORSE
The impacts of the climate crisis are already being felt throughout the United States today, and they will continue to get more intense as long as planet-warming emissions rise, which is code for as long as we’re burning fossil fuels for heat and electricity, and chopping down forests.
“Many extremes, including heatwaves, heavy precipitation, drought, flooding, wildfire, and tropical cyclones/hurricanes, are becoming more frequent and severe due to climate change,” the report’s authors write."
New report paints dire picture of America's future as climate crisis accelerates (msn.com)”
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The trees are dying off:
“The heat and drought in Europe will lead to a huge wave of tree deaths
Even though rain has returned to some parts of Europe, the severe heat and drought this summer will kill many trees over the next two or three years”
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Biden is an obscenity:
“Biden Casts America as Climate Leader and Promises a ‘Low-Carbon Future’
At climate talks in Egypt, President Biden apologized for his predecessor’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement.”
Val Eisman Comment:
“BIDEN HAS GIVEN MULTIBILIONS TO UKRAINE AND WILL GIVEN MULTI BILLIONS MORE WHILE AFRICA STARVES!
"During his remarks at COP27, Mr. Biden made no mention of climate reparations. That disappointed some activists and diplomats, particularly those from developing nations, who view it as a matter of justice.
“It’s fundamentally about who is most responsible,” said Fatima Denton, a Gambian scholar, longtime U.N. official and member of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group. “There’s a solidarity issue here that’s only going to become bigger as the crisis grows. Support for that idea is needed now.”
SNIP”
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British Petroleum kills:
“Air pollution: Uncovering the dirty secret behind BP’s bumper profits”
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“Climate Scientists Blind to ‘Existential Threat’ to Humanity
New Research Warns”
“The paper – recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Climatic Change by a team of American and European scientists – explores how climate change can threaten the existence of “an individual person, a community, or nation state or humanity”. It criticises the climate science literature for largely failing to properly understand this existential risk.”
Kevin Hester Comment:
“"A new report suggests that, far from being alarmist, the real social and economic dangers of the climate emergency are outside of boundaries of traditional climate science".
Ten years now I have been saying this, sigh.”
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