{"id":67650,"date":"2024-04-27T14:01:38","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T19:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67650"},"modified":"2024-04-27T14:01:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T19:01:38","slug":"scientists-terrified-by-how-the-climate-is-falling-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67650","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Terrified by How the Climate is Falling\u00a0Apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinhester.live\/2024\/04\/25\/scientists-terrified-by-how-the-climate-is-falling-apart\/\">Scientists Terrified by How the Climate is Falling\u00a0Apart<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-entry\">\n<p>\u201cIf the fracturing of our once stable climate doesn\u2019t terrify you, then you don\u2019t fully understand it!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile those of us working in the climate science field know the true picture, and understand the implications for our world, most others do not,\u201d he wrote. \u201cAnd this is a problem \u2014 a big one.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/scientist-terrified-climate-falling-apart?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3-OYVXquKLhuBQtCO_Odij-3q4c1SwsKrUVqzgApwH1NZU8taa8McewyI_aem_AZNetuj1BSuhj6kjYURPUxE7LwzE7ByPRwPS-ukWf1owKKjdyj-ux_Nk0sRs_VOnnY-oM5qV842V2sOTaWVWm4C1\">Scientists Terrified by How the Climate is Falling Apart<\/a><br \/>\nThe above embedded article elicited the video response below from my friend and colleague\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/guymcpherson.com\/climate-chaos\/climate-change-summary-and-update\/\">Professor Guy McPherson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jQWFTsI7Iwc?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en&amp;autohide=2&amp;wmode=transparent\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-ratio=\"0.5636363636363636\" data-width=\"605\" data-height=\"341\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>I\u2019ve been saying this for over a decade. A lost decade of preparation time, especially for our youth!<br \/>\nAbrupt Climate Change Denial has squandered an opportunity to prepare.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kevinhester.live\/2018\/05\/15\/the-new-climate-denial-position-is-to-deny-abrupt-climate-change\/\">The New Climate Denial Position is to deny Abrupt Climate\u00a0Change.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have curated a number of articles below showing the orchestrated litany of lies from people pretending to cover the climate and extinction crises.<br \/>\nAs always, the technique is to shift the baseline dates so that they can pretend that we\u2019ve had much less anthropogenic warming than we\u2019ve in reality triggered. I covered this issue previously,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kevinhester.live\/2017\/05\/01\/baseline-temperature-dishonesty-at-the-edge-of-extinction\/#:~:text=Baseline%20Temperature%20dishonesty%20at%20the%20Edge%20of%20Extinction,crack%20like%20and%20sadly%20terminal%20addiction%20to%20carbon.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Baseline Temperature dishonesty at the Edge of\u00a0Extinction<\/a><br \/>\nSam Carana at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arctic-news.blogspot.com\/\">Arctic News Blogspot<\/a>\u00a0is one of the few prepared to address the science and be realistic about the severity of our predicament. We\u2019ll start with the truth and then get to the lies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s time to stop denying how precarious the situation is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemember the Paris Agreement? In 2015, politicians pledged to hold the global temperature rise to well below 2\u00b0C above pre-industrial levels and pledged they would try and limit the temperature rise to 1.5\u00b0C above pre-industrial levels. Well, an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arctic-news.blogspot.com\/p\/crossing.html\">analysis by Sam Carana<\/a>\u00a0shows that it was already more than 1.5\u00b0C above pre-industrial when the Paris Agreement was reached.\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arctic-news.blogspot.com\/2020\/03\/2c-crossed.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2C Crossed<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinhester.live\/2022\/04\/06\/the-rogues-gallery-of-the-climate-enemy-within\/\">The Rogues Gallery of the Climate Enemy\u00a0Within<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists Terrified by How the Climate is Falling\u00a0Apart \u201cIf the fracturing of our once stable climate doesn\u2019t terrify you, then you don\u2019t fully understand it!\u201d \u201cWhile those of us working in the climate science field know the true picture, and understand the implications for our world, most others do not,\u201d he wrote. \u201cAnd this is [&hellip;]<\/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":[140,141,19308],"class_list":["post-67650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate","tag-climate-change","tag-kevin-hester"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67650","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=67650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67651,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67650\/revisions\/67651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}