Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040

New York Times, Oct 2018, Posted by Wayne Morgenthaler

This article, on the release of the IPCC report is basically bad beltway journalism full policy insider quotes, misinformation and dangerous framing. It even contains quotes from coal executives.

The report “is quite a shock, and quite concerning,” said Bill Hare, an author of previous I.P.C.C. reports and a physicist with Climate Analytics, a nonprofit organization. “We were not aware of this just a few years ago.”

Mr. Hare must have had his eye closed as we have known were this goes for 30 years and we did not just find out. Even the Time has shown this in Losing Earth.

COP24 Climate Protesters Must Get Radical and Challenge Economic Growth

Conversation, December 10, 2018, Posted by Wayne Morgenthaler

Decoupling economic growth from resource extraction is an obvious necessity for a sustainable world.  It is also true that this is the most under-assessed element in the climate emergency debate. The Green New Deal for instance promises jobs, education, healthcare and a better life especially for marginallized communities.  Although we support the initiative, at its core GND is nationalist and hence insufficient to the international challenge.  Truth about growth will eventually immerge but it is indisputable that given our current system we should fully expect a serious lowering of standards of living especially in the first world countries if we are to reduce emissions radically over 5-10 years especially and if we do so in a fair handed way with regards to actually increasing standards of living in the third world.

Wildfires in California pose crisis for human health and air quality, experts say

In local news, GUY KOVNER, THE PRESS DEMOCRAT February 13, 2019, Posted by Jorje

Notice how public officials talk about Climate Change as a fact of life that we can not do anything about. This is another argument for a Climate Change Emergency Declaration

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/9278656-181/wildfires-in-california-pose-crisis

The UN's Devastating Climate Change Report Was Too Optimistic

By Nafeez Ahmed, Medium, Oct 15 2018, Posted by Jorge

Here is again the article "The UN's devastating Climate Change report was too optimistic" that discusses how and why the IPCC Report underestimated the state of Climate Change and proposed changes that, even if implemented, will guarantee an unstoppable Climate Change. Even though it recognizes that the Earth and humanity are in deep trouble regarding Climate Change, it still proposes that there is still more time to pump GHG into the atmosphere. Unfortunately, most governments and non-profits (including the Center For Climate Protection) take the IPPC Report as the ultimate word on the state of Climate Change and solutions. That is why we have seen that almost everybody in Climate Change Action is talking about "making major reductions in GHG emissions within 12 years and stopping all emissions by 2050.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43e8yp/the-uns-devastating-climate-change-report-was-too-optimistic

The Transformative Power Of Climate Truth

Margaret Klein Salamon, Medium, Feb. 2019, Posted by Wayne Morgenthaler

Salamon is founder of Climate Mobilization. Her powerful article "The Transformative Power Of Climate Truth" quotes Philip Sutton (Climate Emergency Declaration - Australia) to summarize the alarming conflict within the Climate Change Action movement:

Over those last 27 years, while all the research, activism and negotiation has been going on, the climate has actually become dangerous. So, the key goal now must be to provide, at the 11th hour, real protection for the vulnerable people, species and ecosystems of the world. The principal struggle must shift, from the clash between no action and some action, to the crucial struggle between those who want to constrain reform to levels that are not too disruptive and those who want action that will provide highly effective and timely protection.

This article is long, detailed and clear thinking

https://medium.com/@margaretkleinsalamon/the-transformative-power-of-climate-truth-6e5622ce84fe