Sentences with phrase «runaway climate change now»

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According to David Wasdell, International Coordinator, Meridian Programme: «A runaway climate change is now clear and beginning to be quantified for the first time... the greatest threat we face as a planet... The rate of change we're generating in the current situation is between 200 - 300 times faster than that experience of any extinction event apart from the asteroidal impact.

A cadre of the world's top climate scientists have seen enough evidence of prospective runaway climate change that they are now sounding the alarm, putting the world on notice that an extinction event may be in the cards.

As it stands there's no empirical evidence of any sort that CO2 causes climate warming, and indeed now the ipcc is maintaining that CO2 is both a cause and an effect of temperature change, which, unless CO2 was only an insignificant contributor to warming, would without a doubt lead to a runaway greenhouse with boiling oceans.

Yes, that's right, now we get to watch this mighty crew of irresponsibles abdicate any moral responsibility whatsoever in the necessary fight to slow and stop climate change before we lose the window of preventing a runaway catastrophe.