You get that it doesn’t go back to normal after this right? You understand that each year that passes now will get worse or remain as starkly bad as they are now right? The scientists were wrong, but only in their optimism. Increasingly over the years, the worst case scenarios in the IPCC are playing out in real time. There was always a section in each report where the science was presented that wasn’t universally accepted but included to show the reach and scope of debate. I’ve been following the IPCC reports on climate change from the beginning, and the criticism made against the IPCC was that due to its strict need for only unilaterally agreed science to make the official report, it was always underplaying the urgency and severity of the climate crisis. It is now a present on going risk factor. I believe we are at a turning point on climate change.įor many of us, climate change has been a theoretical argument about something that might happen in the distant future. We need to start thinking about what Fortress Aotearoa entails, what an isolationist NZ would look like culturally, economically and politically.Īs Kiwis we are a very laid back culture and we are fastidious about ignoring things that might lead to conflict, until conflict is upon us and then we are unrelenting in fighting for a righteous egalitarianism. The reality is that we can’t stop what is coming and won’t stop what is coming. I’m waiting for Matthew Hooton to start advocating for the ‘Mole People’ and their right to burrow deep underground to avoid taxation. We are going to continue exploiting the planet and those rich enough will build cities underground and in space stations to avoid the mad max apocalyptic collapse of Civilisation into competing blocks of Autarky. We aren’t going to change our addiction to cheap hyper consumerism to fill the existential grief manipulated by a billion dollar advertising industry that warps the essence of humanity into a meaningless consumption beyond our biosphere’s ability to replenish itself. Those not burnt from the face of the planet will quickly freeze to death. Heat created by human pollution will cause the frozen methane on the ocean floor to erupt in a vast methane burp which will cause temperatures to dramatically jump melting the Greenland Ice Shelf causing a desalination of the oceanic pump in the Labrador Sea which will shut down the Atlantic Oscillation global current which will counter-intuitively spark a new mini ice age in the Northern Hempisphere. The IPCC report is out and it’s all over rover. 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 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. 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. IPCC climate crisis report delivers ‘final warning’ on 1.5C
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |