{"id":63227,"date":"2022-08-04T11:42:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T16:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63227"},"modified":"2022-08-04T11:42:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T16:42:03","slug":"soon-the-world-will-be-unrecognisable-is-it-still-possible-to-prevent-total-climate-meltdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63227","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Soon the world will be unrecognisable\u2019: is it still possible to prevent total climate meltdown?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u2018Soon the world will be unrecognisable\u2019: is it still possible to prevent total climate meltdown?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Record high temperatures and extreme weather events are being recorded around the world.<\/span>\u00a0Photograph: Ian Logan\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Blistering heatwaves are just the start. We must accept how bad things are before we can head off global catastrophe, according to a leading UK scientist<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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T<\/span><\/span>he publication of Bill McGuire\u2019s latest book,\u00a0Hothouse Earth<\/em>, could not be more timely. Appearing in the shops this week, it will be perused by sweltering customers who have just endured record high temperatures across the UK and now face the prospect of weeks of drought to add to their discomfort.<\/span><\/p>\n

And this is just the beginning, insists McGuire, who is emeritus professor of geophysical and climate hazards at University College London. As he makes clear in his uncompromising depiction of the coming climatic catastrophe, we have \u2013 for far too long \u2013 ignored explicit warnings that rising carbon emissions are dangerously heating the Earth. Now we are going to pay the price for our complacency in the form of storms, floods, droughts and heatwaves that will easily surpass current extremes.<\/p>\n

The crucial point, he argues, is that there is now no chance of us avoiding a perilous, all-pervasive climate breakdown. We have passed the point of no return and can expect a future in which lethal heatwaves and temperatures in excess of 50C (120F) are common in the tropics; where summers at temperate latitudes will invariably be baking hot, and where our oceans are destined to become warm and acidic. \u201cA child born in 2020 will face a far more hostile world that its grandparents did,\u201d McGuire insists.<\/p>\n

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Bill McGuire is emeritus professor of geophysical and climate hazards at University College London and was also an adviser to the UK government.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\u2018Soon the world will be unrecognisable\u2019: is it still possible to prevent total climate meltdown? Record high temperatures and extreme weather events are being recorded around the world.\u00a0Photograph: Ian Logan\/Getty Images Blistering heatwaves are just the start. We must accept how bad things are before we can head off global catastrophe, according to a leading […]<\/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],"tags":[33064,141,369,386,33065,33063,6917],"class_list":["post-63227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-bill-mcguire","tag-climate-change","tag-global-warming","tag-greenhouse-gases","tag-hothouse-earth","tag-robin-mckie","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63227","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=63227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63228,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63227\/revisions\/63228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}