UN: Climate disasters imperil Bangladesh kids’ lives, future

[Lord of Planar]

The problem is that the warning from scientists was ignored for so long time. While at the same you still have many developing countries that is going through rapid industrialization.

While at the same time there are positive signs. That for example UK that have reduce the overall C02 emission with 43 percent and in the power sector with 65 percent since 1990.

Which country is doing the most to reduce its carbon emissions? | Grist

The rapid advancement in for example renewables and energy effiecienc have also already have had global impact for example that global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions were flat between 2014-2016.

March: IEA finds CO2 emissions flat for third straight year even as global economy grew

Renewables are also starting to outcompete fossil fuels in developing countries, like for example in India.

India Coal Power Is About To Crash: 65% Of Existing Coal Costs More Than New Wind And Solar

That transition away from fossil fuel will happen but it can come too late to avoid many of the devastating effects of global warming. That the warnings from climate scientist can’t no longer be ignored and decisive action needs to be taken.

Please give the quotes of the scientists who warned us. What are there? Maybe seven of them out of how many thousand?

 

[Born Free]

The problem is that the warning from scientists was ignored for so long time. While at the same you still have many developing countries that is going through rapid industrialization.

While at the same time there are positive signs. That for example UK that have reduce the overall C02 emission with 43 percent and in the power sector with 65 percent since 1990.

Which country is doing the most to reduce its carbon emissions? | Grist

The rapid advancement in for example renewables and energy effiecienc have also already have had global impact for example that global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions were flat between 2014-2016.

March: IEA finds CO2 emissions flat for third straight year even as global economy grew

Renewables are also starting to outcompete fossil fuels in developing countries, like for example in India.

India Coal Power Is About To Crash: 65% Of Existing Coal Costs More Than New Wind And Solar

That transition away from fossil fuel will happen but it can come too late to avoid many of the devastating effects of global warming. That the warnings from climate scientist can’t no longer be ignored and decisive action needs to be taken.

Yeah I get all that, and that's great. However as fast as renewables are expanding so is fossil fuel expanding in useage. So to date nothing has brought down the use of fossil fuel use. Further I sure don't see any producing country of fossil fuels slowing down its production. There are 195 countries in the world and the majority of them are POOR, and for them to cut their use of fossil fuels is not going to happen. First they say "you big guys got rich on fossil fuels and we want to get rich like you did, so how about you handing over a 100 billion and we'll think about it.

Next I never hear a word about adapting, we've been adapting for thousand of years. But no, there is no way we can adapt to anything any more. Hell they say the oceans are rising and property values will drop. Damn we can't adapt to that. So some cliff house will be destroyed but the next row or two back are now on beach front property and their property values go way up.

So I don't believe for a second we're incapable of adapting. Far from it. But you never hear about a solution for this event or that event. It's all about global warming is going to destroy the earth in just a few years. And there are no areas where we can adapt. What bull ****.

 

[Bergslagstroll]

Please give the quotes of the scientists who warned us. What are there? Maybe seven of them out of how many thousand?

Here you have a brief history of climate change studies and how the warming from scientists have been ignored.

Global Warming Timeline

 

[Bergslagstroll]

Yeah I get all that, and that's great. However as fast as renewables are expanding so is fossil fuel expanding in useage. So to date nothing has brought down the use of fossil fuel use. Further I sure don't see any producing country of fossil fuels slowing down its production. There are 195 countries in the world and the majority of them are POOR, and for them to cut their use of fossil fuels is not going to happen. First they say "you big guys got rich on fossil fuels and we want to get rich like you did, so how about you handing over a 100 billion and we'll think about it.

Next I never hear a word about adapting, we've been adapting for thousand of years. But no, there is no way we can adapt to anything any more. Hell they say the oceans are rising and property values will drop. Damn we can't adapt to that. So some cliff house will be destroyed but the next row or two back are now on beach front property and their property values go way up.

So I don't believe for a second we're incapable of adapting. Far from it. But you never hear about a solution for this event or that event. It's all about global warming is going to destroy the earth in just a few years. And there are no areas where we can adapt. What bull ****.

As my link show have many developed countries reduced their C02 pollution and the industrilization of developing countries would have lead to much higher emission if it wasn't for citizens, communities, goverments and coperations leading the way. That the problem is the efforts is to late and to little to avoid many of the devasting effects of manmade global warming.

 

[Lord of Planar]

Here you have a brief history of climate change studies and how the warming from scientists have been ignored.

Global Warming Timeline

That's a timeline, and not what I asked for.

 

[Bergslagstroll]

That's a timeline, and not what I asked for.

Thousands of scientists have for example contributed to the work of the IPCC.

About — IPCC

You also have this letter from 18 leading American scientific societies in 2009.

"Observations throughout the world make it clear that climate change is
occurring, and rigorous scientific research demonstrates that the
greenhouse gases emitted by human activities are the primary driver.
These conclusions are based on multiple independent lines of evidence,
and contrary assertions are inconsistent with an objective assessment of
the vast body of peer-reviewed science. Moreover, there is strong
evidence that ongoing climate change will have broad impacts on
society, including the global economy and on the environment. For the
United States, climate change impacts include sea level rise for coastal
states, greater threats of extreme weather events, and increased risk of
regional water scarcity, urban heat waves, western wildfires, and the
disturbance of biological systems throughout the country. The severity
of climate change impacts is expected to increase substantially in the
coming decades.1"

https://www.aaas.org/sites/default/files/content_files/1021climate_letter.pdf

While you also have this letter from 2016 reprenting 31 scientific societies.

"Observations throughout the world make it clear that climate change is occurring, and rigorous
scientific research concludes that the greenhouse gases emitted by human activities are the
primary driver. This conclusion is based on multiple independent lines of evidence and the vast
body of peer-reviewed science.

There is strong evidence that ongoing climate change is having broad negative impacts on
society, including the global economy, natural resources, and human health. For the United
States, climate change impacts include greater threats of extreme weather events, sea level rise,
and increased risk of regional water scarcity, heat waves, wildfires, and the disturbance of
biological systems. The severity of climate change impacts is increasing and is expected to
increase substantially in the coming decades.1"

https://www.esa.org/esa/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2016climateletter6-28-16.pdf

There those organizations represent millions of scientists.