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Climate change is set to inflict “severe, widespread, and irreversible impacts”
on people and the natural world unless carbon emissions are cut
sharply and rapidly.
IPCC at Lima, pre-COP20 (2014)

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5 Jan 2015 Current pace of environmental climate change is unprecedented in Earth's history

25 Jan 2016 Mankind is likely on a path toward possible extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert

27 April 2016 OCEANS It May Soon Be Too Late to Save the Seas

June 2016 Guardian: Shattered records show climate change is an emergency today, scientists warn

March 2016 Nature: Risk of multiple tipping points should be triggering urgent action on climate change

December 2015 Phys.org: Ocean phytoplankton PLANETARY CATASTROPHE — Warming could stop oxygen generation

IPCC 2014 5th Assessment Report (AR5): "No one will be untouched by climate change"

June 2015: The G7 proposed the IPCC's (AR5) most stringent mitigation scenario

How to stop climate change & ocean acidification in one simple step:
Stop fossil fuel subsidies — $5.3 trillion globally, $2.3 trillion in US and China

Oxford 1.5ºC Conference presentation page with poster

IEA COP22: Energy, Climate Change &
Environment: 2016 Insights

Nov 2017 Fossil fuel CO2 emissions are rising again (Global Carbon project)
Nov 2017 UNEP
World at 3.2C catastrophe by 2100 from national emissions targets UNEP GAP Report
Oct 2017 Lancet Climate change major threat to human survival
Oct 2017 GHGs surge Unprecedented rate of atmospheric CO2 increase

WMO GHG Bulletin Oct 2017 Rate of atmospheric CO2 increase without any
known precedent
31 Oct 2017 Christiana Figueres Climate change is a public health emergency
26 Oct 2017 Current climate change unparalleled over the last 100 million years?
Sept 2017 Fast Action to Protect People and the Planet from Extreme Climate Change
29 June say we have Three years to safeguard our climate

Nature Climate Change March 21st 2016 Risk of multiple tipping points ... urgent global action on climate change ... immediate massive effort ... US$116/tCO2 ... carbon emissions stopped by 2050... goal < 1.5ºC

US temperatures are 10-15 years ahead of global average Article January 11, 2017

Evidence from the top of the atmosphere to the depths of the oceans, ...tells an unambiguous story: the planet is warming, and ..., this warming has been driven primarily by human activity—predominantly the burning of fossil fuels. (US Climate Assessment)

Global Climate Destruction is a Global Extinction Threat

Top project
The Climate Mobilization
city by city
emergency response
MANY EMERGENCIES declared

March 2018 WMO Global Climate 2017
Costliest ever for extreme weather

15 May 2018 UN Sec. General says climate change is an 'existential threat' to most life on the planet, including and especially humankind, UN chief warns global summit, and the age of fossil fuels

must be ended.
VIDEO of the historic statement by UN Secretary-General António Guterres

9 June 2018 We face a global emergency’ over oceans: UN chief sounds the alarm at G7 Summit event. Mr. Guterres noted that commitments are not worth anything “unless we accept that we face a global emergency.”

2015 research Public perceptions of future threats humanity: about half sense an existential threat .

Atlas of the world situation

Sept 2017 Mass marine-global extinction if we don't
decline global carbon emissions by 2020

Top website climateye.org

Biosphere News Search

13 June 2018 The rate of Antarctic melting X3 past 10 years

May 2018 Massachusetts Religious leaders, & scientists (over 500) declare climate change is an emergency

2018 Health leaders Call to Action
Climate Change is a
Global Health Emergency

11 Sept 2018 UN Secretary-General Guterres warns "If we do not change course by 2020, we risk missing the point where we can avoid runaway climate change, with disastrous consequences for people and all the natural systems that sustain us.

TCM Newsletter of the Climate Emergency Movement

18 Feb 2019 EU Climate change existential threat will spare no country-world is not moving fast enough to prevent irreversible and catastrophic climate disruption.