Scientists say climate change is bad, and getting worse, but it is not game over for planet Earth or humanity
“I refuse to write off or write an obituary for something that’s still alive,” Gill told The Associated Press, referring to the Earth. “We are not through a threshold or past the threshold. There’s no such thing as pass-fail when it comes to the climate crisis.”Doomism “is definitely a thing,” said Wooster College psychology professor Susan Clayton, who studies climate change anxiety and spoke at a conference in Norway last week that addressed the issue.
"Fossil fuels make us all vulnerable...to these geopolitical crises and shocks," says Selwin Hart, the Special Adviser to the U.N. Secretary-General focusing on climate. With the Russian invasion of Ukraine causing a stir in the energy market, it's time to transition more rapidly into renewable energy, Hart says. He talked more about the world's energy future and the U.N. IPCC report on climate change, which warns of worsening natural disasters caused by emissions.
“The big message we’ve got human activities got us into this problem and human agency can actually get us out of it again,” James Skea, co-chair of Monday’s report, said. “It’s not all lost. We really have the chance to do something.” IPCC reports showed that depending on how much coal, oil, and natural gas is burned, warming by 2100 could be anywhere from 1.4 to 4.4 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times, which can mean large differences in sickness, death and weather disasters.
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