This Is Code Red for the Planet
Hiya! Happy Friday! Below you’ll find three links, three quotes, and my most recent video. Enjoy!
Three Quotes:
“At sustained warming levels between 3C and 5C, near-complete loss of the Greenland ice sheet and complete loss of the West Antarctic ice sheet is projected to occur irreversibly over multiple millennia (medium confidence); with substantial parts or all of Wilkes subglacial basin in East Antarctica lost over multiple millennia (low confidence).”
— Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
“While the findings on tipping points make for sobering reading, it is important to add that ‘we are not doomed’, IPCC author Dr Friederike Otto from the University of Oxford told a press briefing. While scientists ‘cannot rule out’ passing tipping points in low-warming scenarios, she added that they still ‘really minimise’ their likelihood when compared to higher warming pathways.”
— Carbon Brief
“The future of humanity is in danger, and we cannot allow a group of leaders from developed countries to decide for all countries as they tried unsuccessfully to do at the Conference of the Parties in Copenhagen. This decision concerns us all. Thus, it is essential to carry out a global referendum or popular consultation on climate change in which all are consulted regarding the following issues; the level of emission reductions on the part of developed countries and transnational corporations, financing to be offered by developed countries, the creation of an International Climate Justice Tribunal, the need for a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth, and the need to change the current capitalist system”
— The People’s Agreement of Cochabamba
Three Links:
Explainer: Nine 'tipping points' that could be triggered by climate change (Carbon Brief)
Amazon rainforest now emitting more CO2 than it absorbs (The Guardian)
In-depth Q&A: The IPCC's sixth assessment report on climate science (Carbon Brief)
Hope you have a wonderful weekend,
Charlie