Global warming

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

Climate Action Tracker

Inserted 2 years ago

“Even with all new Glasgow pledges for 2030, we will emit roughly twice as much in 2030 as required for 1.5C. Policy implementation on the ground is advancing at a snail's pace. In an optimistic scenario where some countries' longer-term goals to stop increasing the level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere - net zero - by 2050 or later were actually implemented, warming could be limited to 1.8C (3.2F) this century.”

Aljazeera

News released by Climate Action Tracker

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

Alok Sharma

Inserted 2 years ago

“We need to come out of Glasgow saying with credibility that we have kept 1.5 alive. We're already at global warming at 1.1 degrees above pre-industrial levels. At 1.5 there are countries in the world that will be underwater, and that's why we need to get an agreement here on how we tackle climate change over the next decade.”

Reuters

President of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26)

31 Oct 2021 4 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

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

Steven Amstrup

Inserted 3 years ago

“What we've shown is that, first, we'll lose the survival of cubs, so cubs will be born but the females won't have enough body fat to produce milk to bring them along through the ice-free season. Any of us know that we can only go without food for so long, that's a biological reality for all species. Showing how imminent the threat is for different polar bear populations is another reminder that we must act now to head off the worst of future problems faced by us all. The trajectory we're on now is not a good one, but if society gets its act together, we have time to save polar bears. And if we do, we will benefit the rest of life on Earth, including ourselves.”

Bbc

Chief scientist of Polar Bears International

20 Jul 2020 0 4

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