Scientists’ renewed call for bold climate policies came just days after a new study in the journal
Nature Climate Change warned existing carbon pollution will cause global temperatures to rise about 2.3 degrees Celsius or 4.1 degrees Fahrenheit above pre-industrial levels with devastating consequences worldwide.
As
Common Dreams reported last year, William Ripple, distinguished professor of ecology in OSU’s College of Forestry, and postdoctoral scholar Christopher Wolf co-authored a paper in
BioScience. Backed by thousands of scientists, they wrote that greenhouse gas missions “are still rapidly rising, with increasingly damaging effects on the Earth’s climate” and “an immense increase of scale in endeavors to conserve our biosphere is needed to avoid untold suffering due to the climate crisis.”
‘Massive-scale mobilization’ necessary for addressing climate change, scientists say
A year after a global coalition of more than 11,000 scientists declared a climate emergency, Oregon State University researchers who initiated the declaration released an update today that points to a handful of hopeful signs, but shares continued alarm regarding an overall lack of progress in addressing climate risks.
“Young people in more than 3,500 locations around the world have organized to push for urgent action,” said Oregon State University’s William Ripple, who co-authored “The Climate Emergency: 2020 in Review,” published today in Scientific American. “And the Black Lives Matter movement has elevated social injustice and equality to the top of our consciousness.
The climate crisis is getting worse and a âmassive-scale mobilizationâ is needed to avert disaster, according to the latest assessment by a group of scientists led by a pair of Oregon State University researchers.
In November 2019, OSUâs William Ripple and Christopher Wolf, along with three co-authors, published a paper in the journal BioScience declaring a global climate emergency and calling for global action to address it. More than 11,000 scientists from around the world signed the paper to endorse its findings, a list that has since grown to nearly 14,000 names.
In a follow-up paper in todayâs edition of Scientific American, the OSU researchers and their collaborators argue that the situation has become even more dire over the past year and that âcatastrophic climate change could render a significant portion of the Earth uninhabitableâ unless urgent action is taken.
Jules Polonetsky: FPF December Update LinkedIn 12/23/2020
With Thanksgiving behind us, and in the midst of the holiday season, I wanted to express our thanks to so many people for helping me not only get through 2020, but to thrive and learn even during a global pandemic.
First and foremost, I am thankful for our FPF staff. Our team has produced engaging events, thought-provoking analysis, and insightful reports under the ongoing pressures of the pandemic, even as privacy-related issues have become more challenging and relevant than ever before.
I’m thankful for the FPF Board and Advisory Board members for providing us with their acumen, their experience, and the expertise of their powerful networks.
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