A survey of hundreds of top climate scientists by the Guardian reveals a bleak future with warming projected to reach at least 2.5°C, with some anticipating up to 3°C. The scientists express despair over the challenges of limiting global heating, foreseeing a 'semi-dystopian' future marked by famines, conflicts, and extreme weather events.
Food industry experts everywhere are grappling with the fallout of climate change on a day-to-day basis. This as climate change denial continues largely unabated. Not good. “There are no normal years anymore.” https://t.co/BnJaaFaln1
World's top climate scientists: "What the fuck do we have to do to get through to people how bad this really is?”
Scientists are petrified of the planetary climate death spiral, which shows no signs of abating, according to a poll carried out by our @dpcarrington https://t.co/zyqC0fJ5Id
“[Authorities] will be overwhelmed by extreme event after extreme event, food production will be disrupted. I could not feel greater despair over the future.” 🔥🌎 Choose your own adventure… https://t.co/K3RNKO90Bz
“Almost 80% of the respondents, all from the authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), foresee at least 2.5C of global heating above preindustrial levels, while almost half anticipate at least 3C (5.4F).” https://t.co/M8rqOtozgc
Many of the scientists envisage a “semi-dystopian” future, with famines, conflicts and mass migration, driven by heatwaves, wildfires, floods and storms of an intensity and frequency far beyond those that have already struck. https://t.co/MeiJv3tfN1
“Almost 80% of the respondents, all from the authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), foresee at least 2.5C of global heating above preindustrial levels, while almost half anticipate at least 3C.” https://t.co/GN3UW6kx3A
‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair https://t.co/wOL0jCAdtd
Climate experts were increasingly saying that keeping heating below 1.5C is near impossible, yet it remains the global goal. So I asked hundreds of top IPCC scientists what they thought. What they said shocked even me… 🧵 1/n #ClimateCrisis
More than three-quarters of climate scientists surveyed by the Guardian think warming will reach at least 2.5C Only 6% think we'll stay below 1.5C https://t.co/U2fWWXzfzB https://t.co/jkanySYMQ1
Just two years ago when @adamvaughan_uk and I worked on this piece https://t.co/TOLUukaevD it felt like we were really pushing against the narrative by even tentatively asking whether 1.5°C was dead. Now, the vast majority of climate scientists surveyed by the Guardian agree https://t.co/MxUqAJYgds
💥Exclusive💥 ‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair - Survey of hundreds of IPCC experts reveals harrowing picture of future, but they warn the climate fight must not be abandoned By me https://t.co/GsRODAuM1Y
Our @dpcarrington interviewed hundreds of leading scientists to ask them what they think is happening to the climate. A major project with depressing results but important to know this so we can act. Do read and share https://t.co/pDKEU4ERIN