What is the cause of this climate disaster? Despite decades of trying, we have yet to pass one of their imaginary tipping points.
World close to ‘irreversible’ climate decomposition, warns major studies
Key UN reports released in the past two days warn of urgent and collective action needed – as oil companies report dire profits
via Damian Carrington Environmental Editor
Friday 28 October 2022 04.37 AEDT Last edited Friday 28 October 2022 15.28 AEDTImportant UN reports published in the last two days warn Urgent and collective action needed – when oil companies report terrible profits
One of the world’s top climate scientists says the climate crisis has reached a “really bleak moment”, after a flurry of major reports shed light on how close the planet is. with disaster.
Professor Johan Rockström said collective action was needed more than at any time since the second world war to avoid climate constraints, but geopolitical tensions were high.
He said the world is coming “very, very close to irreversible changes … time is actually running out very, very quickly”.
Reports suggest emissions must be cut by about half by 2030 to meet the agreed international target of 1.5 degrees Celsius but are still rising, the reports show – at a time when the The oil giants are making huge amounts of money.
On Thursday, Shell and TotalEnergies are both double Their quarterly profit is around $10 billion. The oil and gas giants enjoyed sky-high profits as post-Covid demand skyrocketed and after Russia invaded Ukraine. The sector is expected to accumulate $4 billion by 2022, intensifying calls for heavy taxation to address the cost of living crisis and finance the clean energy transition.
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“Moreover, the world is in a state of geopolitical instability,” says Rockström. “So when we need collective action at the global level, perhaps more than ever since the second world war, to keep the planet stable, we have the ability to act together. lowest collective of all time.”
“Time is really running out very, very quickly,” he said. “I have to say, in my professional life as a climate scientist, this is a low point. The window for 1.5C is closing as I speak, so it’s really tough.“
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Record profits for oil and gas are a real vote of confidence in renewables,”cheapest form of energy“/ Fleer.
Reading the Guardian article, it’s hard to see what upsets them the most, all these imaginary tipping points that we’ve always been prepared to pass but never reached, or the profits in the oil and gas industry, but Guardian has been telling people to divest for yearsflying into the stratosphere.
It’s time to find a new fake crisis person. You’ve had people for the first decade or two, since the climate crisis took hold in the early ’90s, but the series is getting boring. Four decades and we still haven’t seen the monster. All we have are endless empty promises that it’s going to be interesting.
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