Some quotes from:
The 2024 State of the Climate Report
"We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster. This is a global emergency beyond any doubt. Much of the very fabric of life on Earth is imperiled. We are stepping into a critical and unpredictable new phase of the climate crisis."
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biae087/7808595
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Some quotes from:
The 2024 State of the Climate Report
"We find ourselves amid an abrupt climate upheaval, a dire situation never before encountered in the annals of human existence. We have now brought the planet into climatic conditions never witnessed by us or our prehistoric relatives within our genus, Homo"
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biae087/7808595
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Some quotes from:
The 2024 State of the Climate Report
"In 2023, various historical temperature and ice extent records were broken by enormous margins. Both global and North Atlantic sea surface temperatures were far above their 1991–2024 averages for much of the year—a pattern that has continued well into 2024."
"Of the 35 planetary vital signs we track annually, 25 are at record levels."
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biae087/7808595
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Some quotes from:
The 2024 State of the Climate Report
"Fossil fuel consumption rose by 1.5% in 2023 relative to 2022, mostly because of substantial increases in coal consumption (1.6%) and oil consumption (2.5%)."
"Annual energy-related emissions increased 2.1% in 2023, and are now above 40 gigatons of carbon-dioxide-equivalent for the first time."
"Carbon dioxide levels were recently observed to be surging. Furthermore, the growth rate of methane emissions has been accelerating, which is very troubling."
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biae087/7808595
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Some quotes from:
The 2024 State of the Climate Report
"Increasing heat and rainfall extremes are now far outside the historical climate."
"As of 2024, extraordinarily warm ocean temperatures are driving the fourth global-scale coral bleaching event ever recorded"
"With the increasingly undeniable effects of climate change, a dire assessment is an honest assessment."
"Because feedback loops are not yet fully integrated into climate models, current emissions reduction plans might fall short in adequately limiting future warming."
"Five of sixteen climate tipping elements are likely to cross their tipping points at 1.5°"
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biae087/7808595
#Climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCollapse
Some quotes from:
The 2024 State of the Climate Report
"As pressures increase and the risk of Earth's climate system switching to a catastrophic state rises, more and more scientists have begun to research the possibility of societal collapse."
"By the end of the century, roughly one-third of people worldwide could be outside the human climate niche, facing increased risk of illness and early death, famine, and a host of other adverse outcomes."
"...the world has made only very minor headway on climate change, in part because of stiff resistance from those benefiting financially from the current fossil-fuel based system. We are currently going in the wrong direction, and our increasing fossil fuel consumption and rising greenhouse gas emissions are driving us toward a climate catastrophe."
"The future of humanity hangs in the balance."
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biae087/7808595
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