Essay by Eric Worrall
The climate warnings seem to have finally made their way to a liberal media audience, with reporters focusing on issues everyone cares about, like the economy and Russia’s war with Ukraine. .
Dire warning on climate change ‘is being ignored’ amid war and economic turmoil
The third segment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s report is being overshadowed, just like the previous one
Fiona Harvey
Sunday, April 3, 2022 17.45 AESTScientists fear that their eventual climate warnings will go unheeded amid international turmoil caused by the war in Ukraine, and soaring energy prices.
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But previous part of extensive reporting – called IPCC working group 2 – published a month ago, right when Russia invaded Ukraine, and received only mute attentiondespite the warning about catastrophic and irreversible upheavals can only be narrowly avoided by taking urgent action now. Scientists told The Observer that Monday’s new scientific warning must prompt governments to act belatedly.
Deborah Brosnan, assistant professor of biology at Virginia Tech in the US and a science consultant, told The Observer: “That [working group 2] The report was widely anticipated, but completely ignored. Mostly overshadowed by the war in Ukraine, and domestic issues like inflation, most major media barely cover let alone analyze the findings.”
She said people were shocked by the Ukraine war, and concerned about skyrocketing prices, but that the climate crisis also needed urgent attention. “The war in Ukraine is a terrible tragedy unfolding before our eyes, and families really fear being pushed into poverty due to inflation. However, we seem blind to the fact that an even larger and existential crisis is unfolding today – one that will lead to a global humanitarian crisis of the magnitude. never seen before. ”
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Poor climate alarmists. They think they’ve got it all sorted out, a carefully planned campaign of intertwined statements, carefully orchestrated in an attempt to raise alarm bells and wake the public from the indifference to their completely justifiable climate. Then a real problem arose and messed up their entire campaign.
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