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.

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 

Shell’s vision of a zero carbon world by 2070, explained

From Vox, March 13, 2018, Posted by Wayne Morgenthaler

Shell Oil is dead serious but dead wrong and yet they say “trust us, we are the experts”. I include this here simply as a counter example of the work of fossil fuel vested interest's on climate change -- Shell and others are at the table as a valid stake holder positions in most government agencies including the IPCC and hence influences consensus in those processes and their findings.  Thus the consensus is clearly not unbiased.

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/3/30/17171370/shell-oil-climate-change-carbon-2070