{"id":60240,"date":"2021-11-02T13:13:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T18:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60240"},"modified":"2021-11-02T13:13:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T18:13:09","slug":"the-scientists-are-terrified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60240","title":{"rendered":"The Scientists Are Terrified"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Scientists Are Terrified<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

A survey of the world\u2019s top climate researchers shows a stark finding: Most expect catastrophic levels of heating and damage soon\u2014very soon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A new Nature survey shows a majority of the world\u2019s leading climate scientists expect \u201ccatastrophic\u201d impacts in their lifetimes driven by rising greenhouse gas emissions. Brilliant researchers, they\u2019re just like you and me\u2014but with more data, which actually makes the new survey even more unnerving.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0feature<\/a>\u00a0from Nature, published on Monday, involved querying\u00a0Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change<\/a>\u00a0researchers. These are the same folks who put out a\u00a0major report<\/a>\u00a0earlier this year warning that this is essentially the most consequential decade in human history, one that will play a major role in deciding just how severe global warming will be for generations to come. In other words, they\u2019re deep in it.<\/p>\n

Nature heard back from 92 of the 233 living IPCC authors. The results show that six in 10 of the respondents expect the planet to warm at least 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit\u00a0(3 degrees Celsius), a level that\u2019s well beyond the Paris Agreement target of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit). And it\u2019s double the 1.5-degree-Celsius (2.7-degree-Fahrenheit) target that policymakers and researchers (including the IPCC<\/a>) have identified as a relatively safe level of heating that would allow small islands to remain above sea level and protect millions from food insecurity and violence. Just 20% of the researchers, meanwhile, expect the world to meet the Paris Agreement 2-degree-Celsius target, and a paltry 4% think 1.5 degrees Celsius is in play.<\/p>\n

Even more upsetting, 88% of the researchers expect climate change to unleash catastrophic impacts in their lifetimes. Of course, you could argue that\u2019s already happening. Research has shown climate change is playing a role in making heat waves, wildfires, and cyclones worse…<\/p>\n

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The Scientists Are Terrified A survey of the world\u2019s top climate researchers shows a stark finding: Most expect catastrophic levels of heating and damage soon\u2014very soon. Photo:\u00a0Fadel Senna\/AFP\u00a0(Getty Images) A new Nature survey shows a majority of the world\u2019s leading climate scientists expect \u201ccatastrophic\u201d impacts in their lifetimes driven by rising greenhouse gas emissions. Brilliant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[32077,141,2956,5677,369,440],"class_list":["post-60240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-brian-kahn","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-science","tag-gizmodo","tag-global-warming","tag-ipcc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60241,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60240\/revisions\/60241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}