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Climate crisis fills top five places of World Economic Forum’s risks report

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Immediate action is needed on climate change.

A year of extreme weather events and mounting evidence of global heating have catapulted the climate emergency to the top of the list of issues worrying the world’s elite.

The World Economic Forum’s annual risks report found that, for the first time in its 15-year history, the environment filled the top five places in the list of concerns likely to have a major impact over the next decade.


Børge Brende, the president of the World Economic Forum, said: “The political landscape is polarised, sea levels are rising and climate fires are burning. This is the year when world leaders must work with all sectors of society to repair and reinvigorate our systems of cooperation, not just for short-term benefit but for tackling our deep-rooted risks.

Climate crisis fills top five places of World Economic Forum’s risks report | Business | The Guardian

That the warnings from the world's leading scientists have been ignored for too long and the devastating effects of climate change are being felt all across the world.

The year 2019 was the second hottest on record for the planet’s surface, according to latest research. The analyses reveal the scale of the climate crisis: both the past five years and the past decade are the hottest in 150 years.

The succession of records being broken year after year is “the drumbeat of the Anthropocene”, said one scientist, and is bringing increasingly severe storms, floods, droughts and wildfires.


The previous hottest year was in 2016, the year that a natural El Niño event boosted temperatures. The new data is for the average global surface air temperature. More than 90% of the heat trapped by human greenhouse gas emissions is absorbed by the oceans, but on Monday scientists revealed 2019 as the warmest yet recorded in the seas, calling it “dire news”.

Climate emergency: 2019 was second hottest year on record | Environment | The Guardian
 
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Is the guardian available in Mandarin?
 
Immediate action is needed on climate change.



That the warnings from the world's leading scientists have been ignored for too long and the devastating effects of climate change are being felt all across the world.



Climate emergency: 2019 was second hottest year on record | Environment | The Guardian

But the climate change crisis is a bogus fake concocted by China to hurt American business. No, wait, the climate is changing but not because of burning fossil fuels, it's a natural cycle. Okay, natural cycles take many centuries, not a few decades, but It's too late now anyway.
Did I miss any reasons to do nothing? Oh, yeah, that Swedish teen-ager is a shill for commie liberals.
 
Jack Hays and other couch scientists will be here any second telling us of world conspiracies and that 2016 > 2019 so we are clearly cooling down.

Lots of charts copied from non-peer-reviewed blogs will be posted I am sure to flood this thread.
 
Immediate action is needed on climate change.



That the warnings from the world's leading scientists have been ignored for too long and the devastating effects of climate change are being felt all across the world.



Climate emergency: 2019 was second hottest year on record | Environment | The Guardian
They do not call them climate alarmist for nothing!
The reality is that the climate's sensitivity to added CO2 is much lower than the predicted 3 C for a doubling.
Calling every natural (or unnatural event) as being caused by Human caused climate change, has weaknesses, unless
the pattern can be shown to be somehow different than the past.
Weather events, Rain, drought, cold, Hurricanes, ect, not much different than in the past.
Even the average temperature is well within the normal range.
stating that the temperatures have warmed faster than Paleoclimatology records show,
is misleading considering the resolution of those records, Marcott has a stated average resolution of 120 years.
 
Is the guardian available in Mandarin?

China invests a lot in renewables and have great potential for a transition away from fossil fuels. While sadly China just like other countries have short time local and business interests that delay the necessary transition.

China Faces 4 Big Risks if it Continues Building More Coal Plants | World Resources Institute

There a large part of China’s C02 emissions is from export to Western countries. So one way to influence China is implementing a carbon tax on imports. Their EU have such plans.

Explainer: What an EU carbon border tax might look like and who would be hit - Reuters

While Western countries need to step up their own action on climate change so that carbon tax on imports can get international acceptance. There EU is now also taken action to reduce their own pollution.

EU to unveil trillion-euro ‘Green Deal’ financial plan – EURACTIV.com

Germany unveils $60 billion climate crisis plan - CNN

While sadly you also have western politicians that wants to spend billions of dollar on propping up the coal industry.

Daily chart - Donald Trump hopes to save America’s failing coal-fired power plants | Graphic detail | The Economist

Adani mine would be 'unviable' without $4.4bn in subsidies, report finds
 
They do not call them climate alarmist for nothing!
The reality is that the climate's sensitivity to added CO2 is much lower than the predicted 3 C for a doubling.
Calling every natural (or unnatural event) as being caused by Human caused climate change, has weaknesses, unless
the pattern can be shown to be somehow different than the past.
Weather events, Rain, drought, cold, Hurricanes, ect, not much different than in the past.
Even the average temperature is well within the normal range.
stating that the temperatures have warmed faster than Paleoclimatology records show,
is misleading considering the resolution of those records, Marcott has a stated average resolution of 120 years.

The evidence is so overwhelming that even federal agencies under Donald Trump and the fossil fuel companies have to acknowledge the urgent need for action.

"The impacts of climate change are already being felt in communities across the country. More frequent and intense extreme weather and climate-related events, as well as changes in average climate conditions, are expected to continue to damage infrastructure, ecosystems, and social systems that provide essential benefits to communities. Future climate change is expected to further disrupt many areas of life, exacerbating existing challenges to prosperity posed by aging and deteriorating infrastructure, stressed ecosystems, and economic inequality. Impacts within and across regions will not be distributed equally. People who are already vulnerable, including lower-income and other marginalized communities, have lower capacity to prepare for and cope with extreme weather and climate-related events and are expected to experience greater impacts. Prioritizing adaptation actions for the most vulnerable populations would contribute to a more equitable future within and across communities. Global action to significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions can substantially reduce climate-related risks and increase opportunities for these populations in the longer term."

Fourth National Climate Assessment

Statements on Paris climate agreement | ExxonMobil

That at the same time also Republican politicians are seeing the great benefits of renewable energy.

Why Republican Leaders Love Renewable Energy

So taking action on climate change shouldn't be a bipartisan issue.
 
But the climate change crisis is a bogus fake concocted by China to hurt American business. No, wait, the climate is changing but not because of burning fossil fuels, it's a natural cycle. Okay, natural cycles take many centuries, not a few decades, but It's too late now anyway.
Did I miss any reasons to do nothing? Oh, yeah, that Swedish teen-ager is a shill for commie liberals.

Thankfully the deniers are becoming a smaller and smaller minority.

'Americans are waking up': two thirds say climate crisis must be addressed | Environment | The Guardian

How people worldwide view climate change | Pew Research Center
 
China invests a lot in renewables and have great potential for a transition away from fossil fuels. While sadly China just like other countries have short time local and business interests that delay the necessary transition.

China Faces 4 Big Risks if it Continues Building More Coal Plants | World Resources Institute

There a large part of China’s C02 emissions is from export to Western countries. So one way to influence China is implementing a carbon tax on imports. Their EU have such plans.

Explainer: What an EU carbon border tax might look like and who would be hit - Reuters

While Western countries need to step up their own action on climate change so that carbon tax on imports can get international acceptance. There EU is now also taken action to reduce their own pollution.

EU to unveil trillion-euro ‘Green Deal’ financial plan – EURACTIV.com

Germany unveils $60 billion climate crisis plan - CNN

While sadly you also have western politicians that wants to spend billions of dollar on propping up the coal industry.

Daily chart - Donald Trump hopes to save America’s failing coal-fired power plants | Graphic detail | The Economist

Adani mine would be 'unviable' without $4.4bn in subsidies, report finds

Thank you.
 
The evidence is so overwhelming that even federal agencies under Donald Trump and the fossil fuel companies have to acknowledge the urgent need for action.

"The impacts of climate change are already being felt in communities across the country. More frequent and intense extreme weather and climate-related events, as well as changes in average climate conditions, are expected to continue to damage infrastructure, ecosystems, and social systems that provide essential benefits to communities. Future climate change is expected to further disrupt many areas of life, exacerbating existing challenges to prosperity posed by aging and deteriorating infrastructure, stressed ecosystems, and economic inequality. Impacts within and across regions will not be distributed equally. People who are already vulnerable, including lower-income and other marginalized communities, have lower capacity to prepare for and cope with extreme weather and climate-related events and are expected to experience greater impacts. Prioritizing adaptation actions for the most vulnerable populations would contribute to a more equitable future within and across communities. Global action to significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions can substantially reduce climate-related risks and increase opportunities for these populations in the longer term."

Fourth National Climate Assessment

Statements on Paris climate agreement | ExxonMobil

That at the same time also Republican politicians are seeing the great benefits of renewable energy.

Why Republican Leaders Love Renewable Energy

So taking action on climate change shouldn't be a bipartisan issue.

Funny how it works though. A conservative who loves hunting and fishing will speak out against anti-pollution measures because the environment is a leftist issue.
 
The evidence is so overwhelming that even federal agencies under Donald Trump and the fossil fuel companies have to acknowledge the urgent need for action.

"The impacts of climate change are already being felt in communities across the country. More frequent and intense extreme weather and climate-related events, as well as changes in average climate conditions, are expected to continue to damage infrastructure, ecosystems, and social systems that provide essential benefits to communities. Future climate change is expected to further disrupt many areas of life, exacerbating existing challenges to prosperity posed by aging and deteriorating infrastructure, stressed ecosystems, and economic inequality. Impacts within and across regions will not be distributed equally. People who are already vulnerable, including lower-income and other marginalized communities, have lower capacity to prepare for and cope with extreme weather and climate-related events and are expected to experience greater impacts. Prioritizing adaptation actions for the most vulnerable populations would contribute to a more equitable future within and across communities. Global action to significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions can substantially reduce climate-related risks and increase opportunities for these populations in the longer term."

Fourth National Climate Assessment

Statements on Paris climate agreement | ExxonMobil

That at the same time also Republican politicians are seeing the great benefits of renewable energy.

Why Republican Leaders Love Renewable Energy

So taking action on climate change shouldn't be a bipartisan issue.
You would first have to validate that not only is CO2 a greenhouse gas, but that it is capable
of the higher end of the predicted levels of warming, before you can blame any observed natural events on Human cause climate change.
There is no laboratory test that actually supports the idea that CO2 actually acts as claimed.
CO2 is a greenhouse gas, and does absorb in the 15 um band of the IR spectrum, but that alone means little.
The vast majority of the predicted warming is based on assumed amplified feedbacks.
Here is an example from the IPCC, Doubling the CO2 level would cause an energy imbalance of ~3.71 Wm-2,
which will force ~1.1 C of warming perturbation, this warming perturbation, would then be the input for the climate feedbacks,
creating additional warming such that the total ECS warming will be between 1.5 and 4.5 C.
This is all based on, not empirical data, but the concept that Earth is 33C warmer than it would be without an atmosphere.(150 Wm-2 of imbalance)
The attribution of the percentage of that difference assigned to CO2, is then assumed, at between 9 and 26%.
The 3.71 Wm-2 number would come from the idea that the level of CO2 had to double 8 times to get to 256 ppm.
so the assumed CO2 contribution would be ~20%, (3.71 X 8=29.68, 5.35 X ln (280/256)=.47, 29.68+.47=30.15 or 20.1%.)
 
Funny how it works though. A conservative who loves hunting and fishing will speak out against anti-pollution measures because the environment is a leftist issue.
I have not found this to be the case, people who hunt and fish, do not seem to fit into the left, right camps,
until it impacts their sport of choice, and then they mostly support things the improve hunting and fishing.
I have been invited to attend focus groups by Parks and Wildlife, and the participants all agreed that regulation
that support the (fishery, in my case) were needed, and the board implemented most of our recommendations.
Most I have spoken with are strongly against actual pollution.
In the case of AGW, the case has not been that CO2 is an actual pollution.
 
There are many positive examples from around the world that shows that the transition away from fossil fuels is possible.

Denmark sources record 47% of power from wind in 2019 - Reuters

Tesla Record Pushes Norway’s Share of Electric Car Sales to 42% - Bloomberg

There renewables are now outcompeting fossil fuels.

Huge Battery Investments Drop Energy-Storage Costs Faster Than Expected, Threatening Natural Gas

It is just that this transition should and could have come decades ago, but sadly you have had powerful economic and political interests that have delayed the necessary transition

How the oil industry has spent billions to control the climate change conversation | Business | The Guardian
 
I have not found this to be the case, people who hunt and fish, do not seem to fit into the left, right camps,
until it impacts their sport of choice, and then they mostly support things the improve hunting and fishing.
I have been invited to attend focus groups by Parks and Wildlife, and the participants all agreed that regulation
that support the (fishery, in my case) were needed, and the board implemented most of our recommendations.
Most I have spoken with are strongly against actual pollution.
In the case of AGW, the case has not been that CO2 is an actual pollution.

I've been told by conservatives here that the DDT ban was regulatory over-reach, that vehicle emission standards are unecessarily handcuffing the industry and that much of environmentalism is part of the leftist agenda to sabotage America. You must have seen this.
I admit it's an assumption on my part that conservatives in the US are favourable to hunting and fishing. Where I live nearly every house contains at least one rifle and at least one liberal but It's two different societies.
Whatever. You say hunters and fishermen where you are don't usually identify on the political spectrum, good enough for me.
 
I've been told by conservatives here that the DDT ban was regulatory over-reach, that vehicle emission standards are unecessarily handcuffing the industry and that much of environmentalism is part of the leftist agenda to sabotage America. You must have seen this.
I admit it's an assumption on my part that conservatives in the US are favourable to hunting and fishing. Where I live nearly every house contains at least one rifle and at least one liberal but It's two different societies.
Whatever. You say hunters and fishermen where you are don't usually identify on the political spectrum, good enough for me.
Consider that even in your area, there is a difference between people who fish and hunt for a living,
and those who are recreational. I would expect the commercial people to be mostly one way of the other,
but the recreational people are from a broad spectrum.
 
You have positive example of climate change being a bipartisan issue from around the world. For example both left wing and right wing government agree on making the EU carbon neutral by 2050.

EU carbon neutrality: Leaders agree 2050 target without Poland - BBC News

There big corporations are also acknowledging the urgent need for action and the great potential in renewable energy.

Google makes ‘biggest corporate purchase’ of renewable energy - The Verge

Climate change to drive 'massive' investment shift - BBC News
 
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