[MCN] It will get worse: Greta Thunberg, activist, and Michael Mann, Kate Marvel, Camilo Mora, climate scientists

[Lance Olsen]

Greta Thunberg: “… and it will get worse”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhQVustYV24 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhQVustYV24>

Michael Mann: “A new normal makes it sound like we have arrived in a new position, and that's where we're going to be. But if we continue to burn fossil fuels and put carbon pollution into the atmosphere, we are going to continue to warm the surface of the Earth. We're going to get worse and worse droughts and heat waves and super storms and floods and wildfires.”

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/climate-change-is-making-wildfires-more-extreme-heres-how <https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/climate-change-is-making-wildfires-more-extreme-heres-how>

Kate Marvel: “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>

Camilo Mora: “ ….  our choices for deadly heat are now between more of it or a lot more of it.”

Circulation : Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes 
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/circoutcomes.117.004233


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