The newly released IPCC report (ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/) says that it’s “now or never” if the world is to stave off climate disaster.
After a report like this, we cannot go on “business-as-usual.” Any policy that doesn’t include phasing out fossil fuels is not a real climate plan. “Net zero” pledges are not going to get the job done, we need Real Zero.
“Net zero emissions” does NOT mean “zero emissions.” In many cases, it means the exact opposite and is instead used as a polluter-driven greenwashing scheme.
Instead of relying on unproven future technologies, we demand climate plans that radically reduce emissions to zero.
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The lack of political action is stunning, given the dangers headed our way.
Please read the IPCC report and pledge your commitment to Real Zero emissions. Please press your representatives to take action to save our future.
Val, I don’t think I have to remind you that people have already lived past the Rapture and Al Gore’s first end of the world prediction in 2016. All predictions of the end of the world due to global warming have not rung true. In 2008, didn’t “experts” predict the Arctic was to be ice-free by 2018? Al Gore had to come up with a second end of the world prediction because his first prediction failed miserably (sorry, I don’t know which year Mr. Gore’s world will end – for the second time). Please ignore the IPCC report based on cherry-picked data.
There is no climate catastrophe unless you believe in climate models that have been predictive and the IPCC's highest temperature predictions that never pan out. ckonmptin .
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Val, I don’t think I have to remind you that people have already lived past the Rapture and Al Gore’s first end of the world prediction in 2016. All predictions of the end of the world due to global warming have not rung true. In 2008, didn’t “experts” predict the Arctic was to be ice-free by 2018? Al Gore had to come up with a second end of the world prediction because his first prediction failed miserably (sorry, I don’t know which year Mr. Gore’s world will end – for the second time). Please ignore the IPCC report based on cherry-picked data.
There is no climate catastrophe unless you believe in climate models that have been predictive and the IPCC's highest temperature predictions that never pan out. ckonmptin .
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