[MCN] Courageous Thunberg knows, and plainly feels, what climate scientists warn about the future. She says the young are "starring" to understand

[Lance Olsen]

Excerpt : “The whole idea that everything’s going to work out isn’t really helpful because it isn’t going to work out ” said Kate Marvel a climate scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Climate change is going to worsen to a point where millions of lives homes and species are put at risk she said. The only thing humans can do is decide how many lives, homes, and species they’re willing to lose due to climate change—how long they’re willing to allow their respective governments to stall on what we know to be technically achievable.

Action relies on courage not hope. “You shouldn’t need the guarantee of a happy ending to do what you know to be right ” Marvel said. Monday’s U.N. report gives us no logical reason to be optimistic about the planet’s survival and no logical reason to hope. But pessimism just might convince enough people about the urgency of climate change and encourage them to find the resolve to join the fight.

https://newrepublic.com/article/151608/case-against-climate-pessimism <https://newrepublic.com/article/151608/case-against-climate-pessimism>

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"Income and Outgo of Heat from the Earth, and the Dependence of Its Temperature Thereon."

A presentation by Abbot, Charles G., and F.E. Fowle, Jr. Annals of the Astrophysical Observatory (Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC) 2: 159-176. 1908

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“My worry is that we may have passed the window of opportunity where learning is still useful,” Schlesinger says.

John Bohannan, ”Trying to Lasso Climate Uncertainty.” 
SCIENCE, 13 OCTOBER 2006

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