[MCN] 16 yr. old kid emerges as leading translator of climate technical reports

[Lance Olsen]

IPCC
“Limiting global warming to 1.5°C would require rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society, the IPCC said in a new assessment.”

https://www.ipcc.ch/2018/10/08/summary-for-policymakers-of-ipcc-special-report-on-global-warming-of-1-5c-approved-by-governments/ <https://www.ipcc.ch/2018/10/08/summary-for-policymakers-of-ipcc-special-report-on-global-warming-of-1-5c-approved-by-governments/>

Greta Thunberg
"So if we are to stay below the 1.5 degrees of warming limits, which are still possible …, we need to change almost everything.”

https://www.straight.com/news/1258421/video-swedish-teenager-greta-thunberg-urges-wealthy-people-stop-stealing-others-carbon <https://www.straight.com/news/1258421/video-swedish-teenager-greta-thunberg-urges-wealthy-people-stop-stealing-others-carbon>

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"In 1972, pursuing his calculations of ice-cover feedbacks, Budyko declared that, at the rate we were pumping CO2 into the atmosphere, the ice covering the Arctic Ocean might melt entirely by 2050." 

"Most scientists spoke more cautiously.”

Spencer Weart. The Discovery of Rapid Climate Change. 
Physics Today, American Institute of Physics
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.1611350 <https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.1611350>
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