The Arctic
Rapid summer snow & sea ice meltdown
- global warming amplifying
feedbacks triggered
State of the climate
All recorded causes & effects
of GHG pollution
are acclerating.
Atmospheric
greenhouse gases
at record high
& unprecedented
rate of increase.
Food security
All regions now vulnerable
with declining yields
projected sooner
Already climate change
is affecting yields
- mostly negative
The oceans
Record rate of
warming + acidification
also deoxygenation
Phytoplankton algae in decline
Committed Global Climate Change Planetary Emergency
The Health and Human Rights Approach to Greenhouse Gas Pollution
CLIMATE SYSTEM EMERGENCY INSTITUTE
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)
CAN International 2014
Emissions target of zero carbon
End fossil fuel energy era by 2050, resulting in a world economy run 100% by clean renewable energy
Limit global warming to under 1.5ºC limit
by 2100
Phase out fossil fuel subsidies
G7 June 2015 emissions proposal
22.6.2015 Reuters: Climate change health risk is a "medical emergency", experts warn
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5 Jan 2015 Current pace of environmental climate change is unprecedented in Earth's history
US President Obama ' no challenge poses a greater threat to our children, our planet, and future generations than climate change'.
25 Jan 2016 Mankind is likely on a path toward possible extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert
4 Mar 2016 'We Have a Global Emergency” Parts of the World... Uninhabitable by 2100
VIDEO 2015 What people
get wrong
about climate change
21 Mar 2016 WMO' Alarming' 'unprecedented' State of the Climate in 2015
Dr Perkins-Kirkpatrick said the WMO statistics revealed an emergency.
15 Mar 2016Climate emergency warning on ‘shock’ global temperatures (expert):
10 March 2016Atmospheric CO2 climate emergency: record high & dramatic highest annual increase from NOAA
15 April 2016 Fossil fuels could be phased out worldwide in a decade
20 April 2016 Legal Petition Pushes President Obama to Declare Climate Emergency
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AGU conference 12th December 2016
Presentation and press release Dr. Peter Carter
Dr Andrew Glikson's June 2016 paper Cenozoic mean greenhouse gases and temperature changes with reference to the Anthropocene.
'The ice core evidence of concentration of (GHG) and temperatures in the atmosphere/ocean/cryosphere system over the last 740 kyr suggests that the rate of rise in GHG over the last ~260 years, CO2 rates rising from 0.94 ppm yr−1 in 1959 (315.97 ppm) to 1.62 ppm yr−1 in 2000 (369.52 ppm) to 3.05 ppm yr−1 in 2015 (400.83 ppm), constitutes a unique spike in the history of the atmosphere'.
Atmospheric CO2 is skyrocketing
Press release 12/12/2016
Atmospheric CO2 is skyrocketing at the fastest rate of increase ever in Earth history. The world is in the most dire climate and ocean emergency. Continued huge fossil fuel emissions have the planet on a fast track to total catastrophe -- heading into runaway carbon-dynamic global climate change and ocean acidification.
Dr. Peter Carter, of the Climate Emergency Institute (www.climateemergencyinstitute.org), warned in his AGU 2016 presentation that the rate of today's atmospheric CO2 concentration suddenly jumped up in 2015 to just over 3 parts per million (ppm) per year. Australian paleo-climate (distant past) expert, Dr. Andrew Glikson, has determined that this rate is unprecedented in Earth history.
From data just released by the NOAA (National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration), Dr. Carter says that this year, CO2 has jumped up again to a stunning 3.37 ppm (Nov 2015 to Nov 2016). While last year's big increase may be partly explained by the El Nino influence, that does not apply to this year.
This comes on top of today's atmospheric CO2 concentration being the highest in 15 to 20 million years. World leaders who reject or ignore this planetary emergency situation have a death wish for the human population and most life on the planet.
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