Global warming and climate change

Aidan Gallagher

Inserted 2 years ago

“Imagine it's the near future. You leave your house and the air is clean and fresh. You get in a car or bus that's clean and electric and it takes you wherever you want to go. So is this some impossible utopia? No. Not at all. It's absolutely possible. And we already have the map that gets us there: the Paris Climate Agreement. And almost 200 countries have already signed on. Every five years each nation has to report back on how they are reducing their carbon footprint and what they are doing to keep global temperature from raising more than 1.5° Celsius. This is personal for me. I don't want to choke on the air I breathe, or see wildfires burning out of control. So let's keep working together. You too can protect what is left and repair what has been damaged. So help me spread the word by posting your support of the Paris Agreement.”

Twitter

United Nations Environment Goodwill Ambassador for North America

27 Dec 2021 5 4

Yanis Varoufakis

Inserted 2 years ago

“What needs to be done? Two things at the very least. First, a complete shutdown of coalmines and new oil and gas rigs. If governments can lock us down to save lives during a pandemic, they can shut down the fossil fuel industry to save humanity. Second, we need a global carbon tax, to increase the relative price of everything that releases more carbon, and from which all proceeds should be returned to the poorer members of our species.”

Theguardian

Economist and politician - Co-founder of DiEM25 (Democracy in Europe Movement)

10 Nov 2021 7 6

Bill Hare

Inserted 2 years ago

“The pledges so far made at COP26 are quite inadequate and considering only those targets for 2030 would limit global warming to 2.4 degrees Celsius. The picture is slightly better if you add incredible net-zero goals, which would bring the warming down to 2.1 degrees Celsius (3.8F). But the really big problem is that the policies and actions that governments actually have in place would push warming to 2.7 degrees Celsius, in other words, there is a huge gap between what come governments promising and what they're doing.”

Aljazeera

CEO of Climate Analytics

09 Nov 2021 1 5

Paola Mercogliano

Inserted 2 years ago

“The potential intensification of heatwaves in the already harsh, hot and arid MENA [Middle East and North Africa] environment is expected to have direct negative impacts on human health, agriculture, the water and energy nexus, and many other socioeconomic sectors. Societal impacts may be relatively large … Moreover, the human population of the MENA region is projected to peak around the year 2065. Therefore, the threat to water supplies in the region with temperatures rising is very much serious.”

Aljazeera

Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change's director of hydrogeological impacts

08 Nov 2021 11 6

George Zittis

Inserted 2 years ago

“Heat stress during summers will reach or exceed the thresholds of human survivability, at least in some parts of the region [Middle East and North Africa] and for the warmest months.”

Aljazeera

Lead author of the study

08 Nov 2021 4 5

Boris Johnson

Inserted 2 years ago

“There is absolutely no question that this is a reality we must face. I would say that humanity as a whole is about 5-1 down at half-time. We've got a long way to go, but we can do it. We have the ability to come back but it's going to take a huge amount of effort. Team World is up against a very formidable opponent in climate change. Rome's ancient monuments could be seen as a memento mori to us, demonstrating how quickly civilisations can decline. Humanity, civilisation, society, can go backwards as well as forwards, and when things start to go wrong they can go wrong at extraordinary speed. You saw that with the decline and fall of the Roman empire, and I'm afraid to say that it's true today that unless we get this right in tackling climate change, we could see our civilisation, our world also go backwards.”

Theguardian

UK Prime Minister

29 Oct 2021 3 4

Inger Andersen

Inserted 2 years ago

“The G20 countries are responsible for 78 percent of all emissions so the 'to do item' lies with them. The developed countries have a special responsibility to really step up, but actually everyone does - all 193 member states. Action is needed now.”

Aljazeera

Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

26 Oct 2021 3 4

Patricia Espinosa

Inserted 2 years ago

“Overshooting the temperature goals will lead to a destabilised world and endless suffering, especially among those who have contributed the least to the (greenhouse gas) emissions in the atmosphere. We are nowhere near where science says we should be.”

Reuters

Head of the U.N. climate office

25 Oct 2021 4 3

Petteri Taalas

Inserted 2 years ago

“We are way off track. We need to revisit our industrial, energy and transport systems and whole way of life.”

Reuters

Secretary-general of the World Meteorological Organization

25 Oct 2021 3 3

Marisol Maddox

Inserted 2 years ago

“Russia is talking up the merits of their adaptation approach because they want to fully realize the commercial potential of their fossil fuel resources. Overall for Russia the evidence suggests the risks far outweigh the benefits, no matter how optimistic the Russian government's language.”

Nytimes

Arctic analyst at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington

22 Oct 2021 3 7

Ryan Ness

Inserted 2 years ago

“We are now committed to a certain degree of warming in the world because of the emissions of the past. So while, in the longer term, it's absolutely critical to reduce greenhouse gases as much as possible, as fast as possible, to keep things from getting even worse, there is a certain amount of climate change that we can no longer avoid. And the only way to really deal with that is to prepare, to adapt and to become more resilient to this change in climate.”

Cbc

Adaptation research director for the Canadian Institute for Climate Choices

02 Jul 2021 1 3

Kristie Ebi

Inserted 2 years ago

“We know from evidence around the world that climate change is increasing the frequency, intensity and duration of heatwaves. We're going to have to get used to this going forward.”

Aljazeera

Professor at the University of Washington who studies global warming and its effects on public health

27 Jun 2021 3 4

Markus Rex

Inserted 2 years ago

“The disappearance of summer sea ice in the Arctic is one of the first landmines in this minefield, one of the tipping points that we set off first when we push warming too far. And one can essentially ask if we haven't already stepped on this mine and already set off the beginning of the explosion. Only evaluation in the coming years will allow us to determine if we can still save the year-round Arctic sea ice through forceful climate protection or whether we have already passed this important tipping point in the climate system.”

Aljazeera

Scientist who led the MOSAiC expedition to the Arctic

15 Jun 2021 4 4

Hafed al-Ghwell

Inserted 2 years ago

“When an estimated 600 million people are faced with life-threatening heatwaves, subsequent food and water shortages, potential for renewed conflicts due to the weaponization (and/or monetization) of strategic resources and greater social fragmentation, the only way to survive is to head for cooler, resource-abundant and still thriving parts of the world.”

Arabnews

Senior Fellow with the Foreign Policy Institute at Johns Hopkins University

15 May 2021 4 8

Michael Lazarus

Inserted 3 years ago

“The research is abundantly clear that we face severe climate disruption if countries continue to produce fossil fuels at current levels, let alone at their planned increases. The research is similarly clear on the solution: government policies that decrease both the demand and supply for fossil fuels and support communities currently dependent on them. This report offers steps that governments can take today for a just and equitable transition away from fossil fuels.”

Unenvironment

Lead author on the report and the director of Stockholm Environment Institute's US Center

02 Dec 2020 4 3

Tim Lenton

Inserted 3 years ago

“The numbers are flabbergasting. I literally did a double take when I first saw them. I’ve previously studied climate tipping points, which are usually considered apocalyptic. But this hit home harder. This puts the threat in very human terms.”

Theguardian

Professor at Exeter University

05 May 2020 (approx) 0 5

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“Heat stress during summers will reach or exceed the thresholds of human survivability, at least in some parts of the region [Middle East and North Africa] and for the warmest months.”

“The G20 countries are responsible for 78 percent of all emissions so the 'to do item' lies with them. The developed countries have a special responsibility to really step up, but actually everyone does - all 193 member states. Action is needed now.”

“Overshooting the temperature goals will lead to a destabilised world and endless suffering, especially among those who have contributed the least to the (greenhouse gas) emissions in the atmosphere. We are nowhere near where science says we should be.”

“We are way off track. We need to revisit our industrial, energy and transport systems and whole way of life.”

“Russia is talking up the merits of their adaptation approach because they want to fully realize the commercial potential of their fossil fuel resources. Overall for Russia the evidence suggests the risks far outweigh the benefits, no matter how optimistic the Russian government's language.”

“We know from evidence around the world that climate change is increasing the frequency, intensity and duration of heatwaves. We're going to have to get used to this going forward.”

“The numbers are flabbergasting. I literally did a double take when I first saw them. I’ve previously studied climate tipping points, which are usually considered apocalyptic. But this hit home harder. This puts the threat in very human terms.”

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