The oldest university in the English-speaking world publishes Oxford Open Climate Change, an “interdisciplinary journal that aims to cover all aspects of climate change, including its impacts on nature and society, as well as solutions to the problem and their wider implications.”
Global warming in the pipeline1 is a paper published by Oxford in November 2023 that has drawn wide attention, some of it centred on co-author Dr. James E. Hansen of Columbia University. New York Times columnist David Wallace-Wells called Hansen the godfather of climate science. Washington Post said he was the world’s most famous climate scientist.
Wallace-Wells says the paper reveals:
…that the world’s climate is significantly more sensitive to carbon emissions than scientists have acknowledged or the public appreciates, and that as a result, even those most focused on climate risks have been systematically underestimating how much warming the planet is likely to see over the next couple of decades.
According to Dr. Hansen, the 2015 Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, is “deader than a doornail.”
Every person who cares about future generations should be sad and angry.
1 Hansen, J. E., Sato, M., Simons, L., Nazarenko, L. S., Sangha, I., Kharecha, P., Zachos, J. C., Von Schuckmann, K., Loeb, N. G., Osman, M. B., Jin, Q., Tselioudis, G., Jeong, E., Lacis, A., Ruedy, R., Russell, G., Cao, J., & Li, J. (2023). Global warming in the pipeline. Oxford Open Climate Change, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfclm/kgad008
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Watching George Heyman’s comments encapsulates the lack of honesty rampant in almost all governing bodies when confronted with facts indicating that they are pursuing a business-as-usual approach to problems that, in effect, says that they are doing less than is necessary to address the problems and that they really have no intention of doing, ever, what it will take to address those problems. In real political terms, there seems not to be an option through the ballot box, and most of us can hear the clock ticking.
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While all credible climate scientists agree that anthropogenic climate change is occurring there is discrepancy over the speed and level of baked-in damage. The article below pits two heavyweights in this field, James Hansen & Michael Mann, against one another. Both are highly credentialed and I respect both. For the sake of humanity I would heed Hansen’s warning. The consequences are enormous.
https://climatecrocks.com/2023/11/02/science-giants-square-off-on-pace-of-warming/
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