Thousands of scientists warn climate tipping points ‘imminent’
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#2Public link to paper: https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1...
But how do we make politicians aware of the seriousness?
Re: Thousands of scientists warn climate tipping points ‘imminent’
#3Public link to paper: https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1... But how do we make politicians aware of the seriousness?
We have to get new ones, the current group is way out of touch. Old dogs, new tricks and all that.
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#4What makes this group of scientists and their warning more legitimate than these previous “imminent tipping points”
https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-of-failed-eco-poca...
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#5Haven't we had multiple tipping points already? It really feels weird how the tipping point is always very soon(tm).
Re: Thousands of scientists warn climate tipping points ‘imminent’
#6Haven't we had multiple tipping points already? It really feels weird how the tipping point is always very soon(tm).
Same thing every decade
https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-of-failed-eco-poca...
Re: Thousands of scientists warn climate tipping points ‘imminent’
#7Public link to paper: https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1... But how do we make politicians aware of the seriousness?
Become a politician or support your friends with such desires.
Re: Thousands of scientists warn climate tipping points ‘imminent’
#8Public link to paper: https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1... But how do we make politicians aware of the seriousness?
To play devil’s advocate, perhaps they already know it’s serious but prioritise other things because on political timescales even “a decade” is the opposite of urgent.
Re: Thousands of scientists warn climate tipping points ‘imminent’
#9What makes this group of scientists and their warning more legitimate than these previous “imminent tipping points” https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-of-failed-eco-poca...
I would be suspicious abount anything published by "one of the Conservative think tanks funded to overturn the environmentalism of the 1960s, central to promoting climate change denial"[1]. The article is also clearly written in bad faith, with their so-called "counter-arguments" being a case of selectively choosing the information that supports their agenda and discarding everything else.
Having said that: that article cites about one scientist a year, while we are currently getting one warning a week. No scientist in their right mind would deny that global warming is real and it's here
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_Enterprise_Institu...
Re: Thousands of scientists warn climate tipping points ‘imminent’
#10So, what item, that mr. Johnny Average uses daily, will now be banned (or made more expensive, by having to use barely "recyclable" materials), while nothing will be done about huge industries, and other countries that pollute a lot more?
We,ve forbidden plastic bags and replaced them with reusable bags, which contain more plastic, or with cotton ones, tha thave to be reused 20.000times, to make it worth it, compared to plastic bags ( https://qz.com/1585027/when-it-comes-to-climate-change-cotto... ). We've forbidden straws. So what's next?