https://www.sustainableviews.com/the-antidote-to-doom-is-doing-ac97ab67/
"The planet is warming and climate impacts are worsening. Last year was the
warmest year on record, with the greatest number of recorded weather and
climate disasters. Canada’s wildfire season, which already smashed records in
2023, began in February this year.
This past month, much of southern and south-east Asia has been enveloped in a
record-breaking heatwave, shutting schools, decimating crops and leading to
thousands of deaths. In the US, a recent poll found that nine out of 10
Americans had been personally affected by extreme weather.
There is no escaping the repercussions of human choices on the climate system:
and these serve as a warning. But our future is in our hands, and our decisions
matter, today more than ever.
As climate scientists who study the past and the future, we are intimately
familiar with the unfolding disaster and we have had to wrestle with the
frustrations of inaction, with policymakers’ denial and delay, with the growing
urgency of action and lack of public response.
For decades, we were attacked by fossil fuel companies and their abettors. Two
years ago, though, we started to notice a shift in the attacks. Today, amid an
intensifying crisis and increasing public disengagement, and as we seek to
paint the path forward on climate, it is nearly as common for us to be vilified
as “hopium peddlers” by ostensible climate advocates as to be labelled venal
money-chasers by climate dismissives.
Doom and gloom get the most clicks on social media, research shows. This week,
a trending topic on X is “record CO₂ surge: climate crisis accelerates”. What
is actually happening is that we have gone through a major El Niño event that
contributed to the global heat of the past year and to a temporary release of
carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, leading to a spike in atmospheric CO₂
concentrations.
Misrepresenting every observation as an “acceleration” of the climate crisis
reinforces the false notion that the problem is spinning out of control."
Via
Fix the News:
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
