When the IPCC’s AR6 Synthesis Report was released this past week the network evening news shows mentioned it briefly without any explanation of it’s dire predictions of what’s in store if we won’t make substantial reductions in our GHG emissions by 2030. Then they moved on to more in depth reports on Buster Murdaugh possible link to a 2015 death.
Scientists have delivered a “final warning” on the climate crisis, as rising greenhouse gas emissions push the world to the brink of irrevocable damage that only swift and drastic action can avert.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), made up of the world’s leading climate scientists, set out the final part of its mammoth sixth assessment report on Monday.
The comprehensive review of human knowledge of the climate crisis took hundreds of scientists eight years to compile and runs to thousands of pages, but boiled down to one message: act now, or it will be too late.
The UN secretary general, António Guterres, said: “This report is a clarion call to massively fast-track climate efforts by every country and every sector and on every timeframe. Our world needs climate action on all fronts: everything, everywhere, all at once.”
The AR6 Synthesis Report makes the emphatic point that we MUST act now to avoid being locked into a future full of catastrophic changes. Profound changes to our planet’s atmosphere and oceans that could threaten human civilization with collapse.
There have been a number of climate conferences since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Over 50% the man made CO2 emissions have occured since 1992 ("The Climate Book - Greta Thunberg" page 20).
1992 was also the year I broke ground on the construction of my passive solar heated home. Since finishing the construction of the home in 1993 the passive solar features of my home have saved an untold number of tons of GHG emmissions. At the time I felt I was leading by example. The problem is too few followed that example to make enough of a difference to alter our economic paridine’s dependence of fossil fuels.
The changes are getting too significant to ignore. For instance so far this year Los Angeles has had three times as much rain as Seattle has.
We’ve procrastinated for far too long. It’s now or never people.