BellingenNSWThe 2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory: "Time is up."
“Life on our planet is clearly under siege...The statistical trends show deeply alarming patterns of climate-related variables and disasters. We also found little progress to report as far as humanity combating climate change.”
"Fossil fuel subsidies roughly doubled between 2021 and 2022 globally, from $US531 billion to just over $US1 trillion.
This year Canadian wildfires have pumped more than 1 gigaton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, greater than Canada’s total 2021 greenhouse emissions.
In 2023, there have already been 38 days with global average temperatures more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
The highest average Earth surface temperature ever recorded was in July, and there’s reason to believe it was the highest surface temperature the planet has seen in the last 100,000 years."
“Our goal is to communicate climate facts and make policy recommendations...It is a moral duty of scientists and our institutions to alert humanity of any potential existential threat and to show leadership in taking action.”
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/uncharted-territory-climate-scientists-sound-alarm-over-earths-vital-signs
"We are entering an unfamiliar domain regarding our climate crisis, a situation no one has ever witnessed firsthand in the history of humanity."
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/biosci/biad080
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‘Uncharted territory’: sounding the alarm over Earth’s vital signs
‘Uncharted territory’: sounding the alarm over Earth’s vital signs A global team of climate scientists has reported that Earth’s vital signs have worsened beyond anything humans have seen, to the point that life on Earth is imperilled. A global team of climate scientists has