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Thousands of scientists issue bleak 'second notice' to humanity

In late 1992, 1,700 scientists from around the world issued a dire “warning to humanity.” They said humans had pushed Earth's ecosystems to their breaking point and were well on the way to ruining the planet. The letter listed environmental impacts like they were biblical plagues — stratospheric ozone depletion, air and water pollution, the collapse of fisheries and loss of soil productivity, deforestation, species loss and catastrophic global climate change caused by the burning of fossil fuels.

If not checked,” wrote the scientists, led by particle physicist and Union of Concerned Scientists co-founder Henry Kendall, “many of our current practices put at serious risk the future that we wish for human society and the plant and animal kingdoms, and may so alter the living world that it will be unable to sustain life in the manner that we know.”

But things were only going to get worse.

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To mark the letter's 25th anniversary, researchers have issued a bracing follow-up. In a communique published Monday in the journal BioScience, more than 15,000 scientists from 184 countries assess the world's latest responses to various environmental threats. Once again, they find us sorely wanting.
“Humanity has failed to make sufficient progress in generally solving these foreseen environmental challenges, and alarmingly, most of them are getting far worse,” they write.

This letter, spearheaded by Oregon State University ecologist William Ripple, serves as a “second notice,” the authors say: “Soon it will be too late to shift course away from our failing trajectory.”

Global climate change sits atop the new letter's list of planetary threats. Global average temperatures have risen by more than half a degree Celsius since 1992, and annual carbon dioxide emissions have increased by 62 percent.

But it's far from the only problem people face. Access to fresh water has declined, as has the amount of forestland and the number of wild-caught fish (a marker of the health of global fisheries). The number of ocean dead zones has increased. The human population grew by a whopping 2 billion, while the populations of all other mammals, reptiles, amphibians and fish have declined by nearly 30 percent.

The lone bright spot exists way up in the stratosphere, where the hole in the planet's protective ozone layer has shrunk to its smallest size since 1988. Scientists credit that progress to the phasing out of chlorofluorocarbons — chemicals once used in refrigerators, air conditioners and aerosol cans that trigger reactions in the atmosphere to break down ozone.

“The rapid global decline in ozone depleting substances shows that we can make positive change when we act decisively,” the letter says.
The authors offer 13 suggestions for reining in our impact on the planet, including establishing nature reserves, reducing food waste, developing green technologies and establishing economic incentives to shift patterns of consumption.

To this end, Ripple and his colleagues have formed a new organization, the Alliance of World Scientists, aimed at providing a science-based perspective on issues affecting the well-being of people and the planet.

“Scientists are in the business of analyzing data and looking at the long-term consequences,” Ripple said in a release. “Those who signed this second warning aren't just raising a false alarm. They are acknowledging the obvious signs that we are heading down an unsustainable path. We are hoping that our paper will ignite a widespread public debate about the global environment and climate.”

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The sky is not falling, the globe is not warming and no the sea is not rising.
Chill out, enjoy this beautiful planet, God did not create man with enough power to destroy his work
 
Getin the ring said:
The sky is not falling, the globe is not warming and no the sea is not rising.
Chill out, enjoy this beautiful planet, God did not create man with enough power to destroy his work
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Silly.

Reefs are dying, habitat is being lost every day, there is a "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico that is thousands of square miles. Polluted air, water & soil. And we're only a couple hundred years into the Industrial Revolution.

How is it possible for people to have these kinds of blinders on?
 
Getin the ring said:
The sky is not falling, the globe is not warming and no the sea is not rising.
Chill out, enjoy this beautiful planet, God did not create man with enough power to destroy his work
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You know what? Your opinion doesn't matter. Not one little, tiny bit.
You are not a trained research scientist, you do not publish peer reviewed research, and you do not have a position of authority on any national or international decisions-making bodies.

I suggest you limit yourself to blathering about how much you worship the Orange Fat Ass, gossiping about inane social trivia, or blabbing about sports. Because you clearly do not have the aptitude, training, or education to talk about global scientific topics.
 
relax, this earth has been here for billions of years and knows how to take care of itself. If it gets to the point that it feels another mass extinction event needs to happen, so be it.
 
Cypress said:
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According to the article, there has been a 62% increase in CO2 emissions. I've found the cause. Those 1,700 idiots selling their global warming snake oil have continued to run their dick suckers about this nonsense and every time they exhale they emit more CO2. I've also found the solution. Every one of them and those that believe them should voluntarily stop breathing immediately. You'd be amazed at just how much CO2 emissions would decrease.
 
Cypress said:
You know what? Your opinion doesn't matter. Not one little, tiny bit.
You are not a trained research scientist, you do not publish peer reviewed research, and you do not have a position of authority on any national or international decisions-making bodies.

I suggest you limit yourself to blathering about how much you worship the Orange Fat Ass, gossiping about inane social trivia, or blabbing about sports. Because you clearly do not have the aptitude, training, or education to talk about global scientific topics.
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I suggest you get back in kiss Obama's black ass line before you lose your place. You know what? You're opinion doesn't mean shit in a nigger's back yard. Not one little, tiny bit.

When the peers that are reviewing the research have the same agenda as the idiots doing the research, the level of validity to that review is the same as asking a fox with feathers in his mouth whether or not he raided the hen house then believing him when he says no.
 
We need to destroy the "turn earth into Venus" oil lobby. Is is ethical to slaughter them? Seriously. If slaughtering them can save millions now and 100s of billions in the future isn't it immoral not to murder them?

I say we murder all Republicans.
 
CFM said:
According to the article, there has been a 62% increase in CO2 emissions. I've found the cause. Those 1,700 idiots selling their global warming snake oil have continued to run their dick suckers about this nonsense and every time they exhale they emit more CO2. I've also found the solution. Every one of them and those that believe them should voluntarily stop breathing immediately. You'd be amazed at just how much CO2 emissions would decrease.
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^^^^^
Another flaccid attempt at rightwing humour, folks.

Any more questions about why the best comedians are almost always liberal lefties?
 
Getin the ring said:
The sky is not falling, the globe is not warming and no the sea is not rising.
Chill out, enjoy this beautiful planet, God did not create man with enough power to destroy his work
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Really? Man has caused the extinction of any number of species. That “work” was destroyed.

What kind of feckless god do you worship?
 
Probably the world's foremost expert on ocean sea levels has just published a groundbreaking paper. Naturally it will get ignored by climate alarmists who always prefer to hear that the sky is falling. Let's see Crypiss start off on his familiar rant that he is not a scientist and has no expertise blah blah.



International Journal of Earth & Environmental Sciences Volume 2 (2017), Article ID 2:IJEES-137, 5 pages

https://doi.org/10.15344/2456-351X/2017/137

Our Oceans-Our Future: New Evidence-based Sea Level Records from the Fiji Islands for the Last 500 years Indicating Rotational Eustasy and Absence of a Present Rise in Sea Level

Nils-Axel Mörner
Paleogeophysics & Geodynamics, Stockholm, Sweden

Corresponding Author Details: Prof. Nils-Axel Mörner, Paleogeophysics & Geodynamics, Stockholm, Sweden; E-mail: morner@pog.nu

Received: 20 September 2017; Accepted: 07 October 2017; Published: 09 October 2017

Citation: Mörner NA (2017) Our Oceans-Our Future: New Evidence-based Sea Level Records from the Fiji Islands for the Last 500 years Indicating Rotational Eustasy and Absence of a Present Rise in Sea Level. Int J Earth Environ Sci 1: 137. doi: https://doi.org/10.15344/2456-351X/2017/137

Copyright: [emoji767] 2017 Mörner.

This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Abstract
Previously, no study in the Fiji Islands had been devoted to the sea level changes of the last 500 years. No serious prediction can be made unless we have a good understanding of the sea level changes today and in the past centuries. Therefore, this study fills a gap, and provides real observational facts to assess the question of present sea level changes. There is a total absence of data supporting the notion of a present sea level rise; on the contrary all available facts indicate present sea level stability. On the centennial timescale, there was a +70 cm high level in the 16th and 17th centuries, a -50 cm low in the 18th century and a stability (with some oscillations) in the 19th, 20th and early 21st centuries. This is almost identical to the sea level change documented in the Maldives, Bangladesh and Goa (India). This seems to indicate a mutual driving force. However, the recorded sea level changes are anti-correlated with the major changes in climate during the last 600 years. Therefore, glacial eustasy cannot be the driving force. The explanation seems to be rotational eustasy with speeding-up phases during Grand Solar Minima forcing ocean water masses to the equatorial region, and slowing-down phases during Grand Solar Maxima forcing ocean

https://www.graphyonline.com/archives/IJEES/2017/IJEES-137/

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domer76 said:
Really? Man has caused the extinction of any number of species. That “work” was destroyed.

What kind of feckless god do you worship?
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There are too many people on the planet, so do something positive and top yourself.

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