CLIMATE CHANGE GLOBAL IMPACTS NEARING IRREVERSIBLE – SCIENTISTS

Climate change is putting world at risk of irreversible changes, scientists warn AAAS makes rare policy intervention urging US to act swiftly to reduce carbon emissions and lower risks of climate catastrophe

Suzanne Goldenberg, 18 March 2014 (UK Guardian)

"The world is at growing risk of ‘abrupt, unpredictable and potentially irreversible changes’ because of a warming climate, America’s premier scientific society warned…In a rare intervention into a policy debate, the American Association for the Advancement of Science urged Americans to act swiftly to reduce greenhouse gas emissions – and lower the risks of leaving a climate catastrophe for future generations…[T]he AAAS scientists…[are] concerned that Americans still failed to appreciate the gravity of climate change…[and have] yet to mobilise at a pace and scale needed to avoid a climate catastrophe…The scientists said they were hoping to persuade Americans to look at climate change as an issue of risk management. The society said it plans to send out scientists on speaking tours to try to begin a debate on managing those risks…” click here for more

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