EMERGENCY OF CLIMATE CHANGE-ITS REAL
To my understanding as the damage so severe that global climate systems could create a cascade effect in a world of chaos, where political panic is the norm and humans are on a path facing the end of civilization. That’s not going to be a problem to the Earth, which has been around for 4.5 million years, but only to the life on Earth, which slowly will perish. And humans are the most endangered spices of them all, destroying their own life.
We don’t take our environment seriously. The world’s actions are evidence of that. We have witnessed the catastophe last year in Kerala and this year in Orissa in India, and so on, as the rains are now in dole drum of 45 days delay in touching this warm Earth. You could say it is ok for people above 50 years of age to perish, but what about our children and the world they will inherit? What if 4°C-degree changes really do create some symptoms of dystopia?
We know (in 2020s) that carbon emissions probably won’t be curbed. So think about the world we know, and imagine what could actually happen.
As this damage is irreversible, all human beings should work like a farmer who is always looking for an opportunity to green the land, every inch available. Now is the time all nations should wake and not to waste a single minute in working with their utmost care and take the responsibility towards the only Earth in our vicinity by planting trees, protecting the planted trees, cleaning own garbage and recycling, not wasting the water, and not damaging the eco systems by killing the fauna and flora.
In a big mass Penguin colony of 40,000, Just Two Penguin Chicks Survived This Year 2019
We must know that the planet is sounding all sorts of alarms—including with the mass death of birds.
It was observed and found that all over the world, for the past few years, so many birds have been starving to death. Some of it is attributable to those clever Chinese climate hoaxsters. Some of it also is attributable to general and casual environmental vandalism. But birds are starving to death all over the world not due to the birds mistake but Human’s.
Not to bring any more heat generated systems in use, rather use very simplistic life like a villager, use walking – and public transport system where can’t avoid.
I am calling the Heads of the Nations to take very serious note on this and work like a solider in the war and declare the war on the climate change. Its already late but at least to stop the further damage of the nuclear reactor like chain actions of global warming to stopped in every possible and means as the most important priority act very religiously in this aspect to extend the human life on the earth.
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So what do you tell your kids?
Global greenhouse gas emissions likely peak in 2030 and begin to fall due to a drop in fossil fuel use, but the damage has been done and warming reaches 3°C. So that’s a different world, as we can see already with forest fires and super storms in 2019. Now multiply that by many factors and add in climate migrants and a significantly higher global population.
So by that 2050 date? Globally, 55 per cent of the population lives in areas subject to more than 20 days of lethal heat a year, beyond the human threshold of survivability. People are going to die, and it will just be the new normal.
North America will continue to suffer from devastating weather extremes, including wildfires, heat waves, droughts and flooding. But just much worse and more frequent.
Two billion people globally are affected by lack of water. Food production falls by one-fifth as droughts, heat waves, flooding and storms affect crops. Up to 1 billion people could be displaced. That’s a lot of bodies and a lot of chaos.
Even slight rises of the ocean could lead to some cities becoming inhabitable. And here is the panic button. Rising ocean levels make some of the world’s most populous cities uninhabitable, including Mumbai, Jakarta, Canton, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Lagos, Bangkok and Manila. Billions of people must be relocated.
Antarctica is melting faster than anyone thought, and we’re not ready for the sea level rise that’s coming
“Arctic sea ice has not only been shrinking in surface area in recent years, it’s becoming younger and thinner as well. In this animation, where the ice cover almost looks gelatinous as it pulses through the seasons, cryospheric scientist Dr. Walt Meier of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center describes how the sea ice has undergone fundamental changes during the era of satellite measurements.”
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The Morganza Spillway is just the latest symptom of the climate change crises.
What evidence will you need to declare an emergency?
Carbon and methane now represent the deadliest enemy of all time, the first force fully capable of harrying, scattering, and impoverishing our entire civilization.
We’re used to war as metaphor: the war on poverty, the war on drugs, the war on cancer. Usually this is just a rhetorical device, a way of saying, “We need to focus our attention and marshal our forces to fix something we don’t like.” But this is no metaphor. By most of the ways we measure wars, climate change is the real deal: Carbon and methane are seizing physical territory, sowing havoc and panic, racking up casualties, and even destabilizing governments. (Over the past few years, record-setting droughts have helped undermine the brutal strongman of Syria and fuel the rise of Boko Haram in Nigeria.)
It was 84 degrees near the Arctic Ocean this July 2019 end as carbon dioxide hit its highest level in human history
The belief that this enormous, existential problem could have been fixed if all of us had just tweaked our consumptive habits is not only preposterous; it’s dangerous now.
Poisons released by Melting arctic ice
It’s not that global warming is like a world war. It is a world war. Its first victims, ironically, are those who have done the least to cause the crisis. But it’s a world war aimed at us all. And if we lose, we will be as decimated and helpless as the losers in every conflict – except that this time, there will be no winners, and no end to the planet-wide occupation that follows.
Who should be blamed, who is responsible?
In case you don’t know, out of all the hundreds of thousands of companies in the world, just 100 of them have been responsible for 71% of the global emissions that cause global warming since 1998, according to The Carbon Majors Database published by the Carbon Disclosure Project. Many of them are owned or controlled by governments.
Here’s the top 10 list according to CDP: China Coal – 14.3%, Saudi Aramco – 4.5%, Gazprom – 3.9%, National Iranian Oil Co – 2.3%, ExxonMobil – 2.0%, Coal India – 1.9%, Petróleos Mexicanos – 1.9%, Russia Coal – 1.9%, Royal Dutch Shell – 1.7%, China National Petroleum Corp – 1.6%
There is little we can do to hold governments responsible, but private, for profit companies should be targeted either directly or through their investors.
America went crazy when it was revealed that Volkswagen had sold diesel powered cars in the US for a number of years that did not comply with applicable emissions standards. Massive fines were levied and a few people went to prison. Why, then, is there no public outcry about the criminals in the oil business who knowingly foisted off their death dealing products on the public for decades?
The emissions from diesel Volkswagens were bad, but their effect on the environment was not one millionth as damaging as the impact of carbon dioxide or the fine particulates released into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels. Apologists may say that the oil companies didn’t know about the harm they were doing but that is simply not true.
The global enemy already devastated the North: Enemy forces have seized huge swaths of territory; with each passing week, another 22,000 square miles of Arctic ice disappears. Experts dispatched to the battlefield in July saw little cause for hope, especially since this siege is one of the oldest fronts in the war. “In 30 years, the area has shrunk approximately by half,” said a scientist who examined the onslaught. “There doesn’t seem anything able to stop this.”
In the Pacific this spring, the enemy staged a daring breakout across thousands of miles of ocean, waging a full-scale assault on the region’s coral reefs. In a matter of months, long stretches of formations like the Great Barrier Reef — dating back past the start of human civilization and visible from space—were reduced to white bone-yards.
Day after day, week after week, saboteurs behind our lines are unleashing a series of brilliant and overwhelming attacks. In the past few months alone, our foes have used a firestorm to force the total evacuation of a city of 90,000 in Canada, drought to ravage crops to the point where southern Africans are literally eating their seed corn, and floods to threaten the priceless repository of art in the Louvre.
The enemy is even deploying biological weapons to spread psychological terror: The zika virus, loaded like a bomb into a growing army of mosquitoes, has shrunk the heads of new born babies across an entire continent; panicked health ministers in seven countries are now urging women not to get pregnant. And as in all conflicts, millions of refugees are fleeing the horrors of war, their numbers swelling daily as they’re forced to abandon their homes to escape famine and desolation and disease.
“I don’t think you can actually imagine that world”. A world where rising droughts leads to rising food shortages and people clamour to get help all over the world on a more consistent basis. A world of climate change uncertainty and the huge economic cost of global warming — not to mention just the lower quality of our lives that this impact.
In a worst-case scenario, those 3 or 4°C degrees lead to changes in society that pressure our ability to adapt and survive, leading to a chain reaction of events that puts millions of lives at risk.
Over the 2nd week of July 2019, the climate system sounded simultaneous alarms. Near the entrance to the Arctic Ocean in northwest Russia, the temperature surged to 84 degrees Fahrenheit (29 Celsius). Meanwhile, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere eclipsed 415 parts per million for the first time in human history.
By themselves, these are just data points. But taken together with so many indicators of an altered atmosphere and rising temperatures, they blend into the unmistakable portrait of human-induced climate change.
Carbon dioxide levels from approximately 1750 to present. (Scripps Institute of Oceanography)
And we are losing. For years, our leaders chose to ignore the warnings of our best scientists and top military strategists(environmentalists). Global warming, they told us, was beginning a stealth campaign that would lay waste to vast stretches of the planet, uprooting and killing millions of innocent civilians. But instead of paying heed and taking obvious precautions, we chose to strengthen the enemy with our endless combustion; a billion explosions of a billion pistons inside a billion cylinders have fuelled a global threat as lethal as the mushroom-shaped nuclear explosions we long feared.
We’re under attack from climate change — and our only hope is to mobilize like we did in WWII and work relentlessly in protecting the humans by restoring the ecosystem and declare the war on the climate change with a constitutional provision in every country.
Dear readers and global citizens Please do all you can, to advise that the climate emergency has just reached even more dire proportions.
This is now definitely a matter of life and death for the human race. The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres does understand this.
Global warming for June is 1.24 degrees C (NASA GISS)
(With the June result) Atmospheric CO2 for the first full 6 months of 2019 is growing at an explosive rate of just over 3 ppm per year.
Over the past 40 million years atmospheric CO2 has never increased at a rate of 2 ppm (WMO GHG Bulletin 2017), and paleo-climatologist Andrew Glikson was published 2016 that 3 ppm is above atmospheric history.
The rate for the last decade was 2 ppm and for the decade before that 1.5 ppm.
This is due to the recent increase in fossil fuel CO2 emissions, on top of the enormous emissions rate (that must be "near zero" -IPCC 2014- for our future survival).
“A billion explosions of a billion pistons inside a billion cylinders have fuelled a global threat as lethal as the mushroom-shaped nuclear explosions we long feared. We’re under attack from climate change — and our only hope is to mobilize like we did in World War II…”
Jan 2019 to June 2019, Global Warming charts-irreversible climate change
THERE IS A DIRE NEED TO DECLARE THE EMERGENCY ON THE CLIMATE CHANGE
“I don’t care how green you are. I want you in the movement for climate justice. I don’t care how long you’ve been engaged in the climate conversation, 10 years or 10 seconds. I don’t care how many statistics you can rattle off. I don’t need you to be all-solar-everything to be an environmentalist. I don’t need you to be vegan-er than thou, or me, for that matter. I don’t care if you are eating a burger right this minute.
I don’t even care if you work on an oil rig. In some parts of the country, those are the only jobs that pay enough for you to feed your family. And I don’t blame workers for that. I blame their employers. I blame the industry that is choking us all, and the government that is letting them do it.
All I need you to do is want a liveable future. This is your planet, and no one can advocate for it like you can. No one can protect it like you can. We have 10 years — not to start but to finish saving the planet. I’m not here to absolve you. And I’m not here to abdicate you. I am here to fight with you.”
M. RAJ REDDY. CE, MTech, FIE, MISTE, MASCE, ACIOB, MCMI, MIACET
Expert on the Climate change and Sustainable cities
Email: expat.rr@gmail.com
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Director CDI, National Academy of Construction