<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(10, 35, 54); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><b class="">EXCERPT :</b> Even without an 11th positive feedback from the ocean, Hothouse Earth co-author Hans Joachim Schellnhuber has said the language of global warming “<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/12/13/after-30-years-studying-climate-scientist-declares-ive-never-been-worried-i-am-today?" target="_blank" style="outline: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; color: rgb(169, 0, 40); text-decoration: none;" class="">doesn't capture the scale of destruction</a>." </span></div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br style="color: rgb(10, 35, 54); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""></span><div style="color: rgb(10, 35, 54); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Much the same concern about the language we use to describe the rise of heat had already been expressed in an assessment by Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; “For decades, we called it ‘global warming,’ an innocuous-sounding phrase invoking a gentle increase in worldwide temperatures, like turning up the thermostat in a house.</span></div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br style="color: rgb(10, 35, 54); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""></span><div style="color: rgb(10, 35, 54); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">“People asked, so the climate is getting warmer. Who cares?” said <a href="https://www.seas.harvard.edu/directory/mbm" style="outline: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; color: rgb(169, 0, 40); text-decoration: none;" class="">Michael B. McElroy, the Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies</a> at Harvard University. “<a href="https://www.seas.harvard.edu/content/from-sea-to-rising-sea-climate-change-in-america" target="_blank" style="outline: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; color: rgb(169, 0, 40); text-decoration: none;" class="">And scientists are partly to blame for that because of how we’ve described climate.</a>" </span></div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br style="color: rgb(10, 35, 54); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""></span><div style="color: rgb(10, 35, 54); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Climate science has been struggling with this issue for years.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(10, 35, 54); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="color: rgb(10, 35, 54); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">For example, in its October 13 2006 issue, <em class="">Science</em> quoted researcher Brian O’Neill’s concern that the IPCC reports don’t convey the full range of risks; “the extreme scenarios that tend to fall out of the IPCC process may be exactly the ones we should most worry about.”</span></div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br style="color: rgb(10, 35, 54); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""></span><div style="color: rgb(10, 35, 54); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">In that same issue, <em class="">Science</em> quoted Michael Schlesinger, a climate scientist at the University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign. Schlesinger remarked that, “Things are happening right now with the ice sheets that were not predicted to happen until 2100. My worry is that we may have passed the window of opportunity where learning is still useful.” </span></div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br style="color: rgb(10, 35, 54); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""></span><div style="color: rgb(10, 35, 54); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Science returned to these concerns in June, 2007, quoting climate researcher Stefan Rahmstorf’s comment that, “The IPCC has been overly cautious in not wanting to give any large number to [future] sea-level rise.” </span></div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br style="color: rgb(10, 35, 54); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""></span><div style="color: rgb(10, 35, 54); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">Reporting that “Scientists are still trying to strike a balance between their habitual caution and growing concern over uncertain but disastrous greenhouse outcomes,” Science also quoted glaciologist Robert Thomas’ remark that, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">“ ‘Most scientists don’t want to, but I think we need a way to explore’ the extreme end of the range of possibilities.” Thomas told Science that scientists need “a better way” than IPCC’s consensus approach, “so we can communicate with the public without becoming scaremongers.”</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></div><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><b class="">END EXCERPT</b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><a href="https://mountainjournal.org/why-rising-temps-mean-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it" class="">https://mountainjournal.org/why-rising-temps-mean-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it</a></span></div><div><br class=""></div><div><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">==--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------== </span></div></div></div></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;">“We don’t need to guard [ <span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);">i.e., defend/protect ourselves </span>] against depression, against anger, against despair when it comes to climate change.”<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2017/07/we_are_not_alarmed_enough_about_climate_change.html" class="">http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2017/07/we_are_not_alarmed_enough_about_climate_change.html</a></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;">==——————-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------—==</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;">Excerpt: "Environmental psychologist Susi Moser, also talks about the importance of acknowledging our underlying fears and distress about climate change as an important coping strategy. Moser (2012) calls it ‘the bravest thing’ – getting real, accepting reality without illusions, and accepting that better tomorrows may not come.”<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://www.isthishowyoufeel.com/blog/how-do-people-cope-with-feelings-about-climate-change-so-that-they-stay-engaged-and-take-action" class="">https://www.isthishowyoufeel.com/blog/how-do-people-cope-with-feelings-about-climate-change-so-that-they-stay-engaged-and-take-action</a><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">
<div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div>================</div><div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(64, 64, 64); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b class="">The heads of two major central banks have written a stark warning about the financial risks of climate change.</b></span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(64, 64, 64); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(64, 64, 64); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">"If some companies and industries fail to adjust to this new world, </span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);">they will fail to exist,"</span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> they wrote.</span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(64, 64, 64); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The letter was co-signed by the chair of the climate-focused Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS).</span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(64, 64, 64); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/news/2019/april/open-letter-on-climate-related-financial-risks" class=""><b class="">Mr Carney and Mr Villeroy de Galhau describe "the catastrophic effects of climate change"</b></a><b class=""> </b></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(64, 64, 64);">already having an impact on the planet</span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(64, 64, 64); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/news/2019/april/open-letter-on-climate-related-financial-risks" class="">https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/news/2019/april/open-letter-on-climate-related-financial-risks</a></span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">##########################################</span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(64, 64, 64); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 14px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(102, 0, 153); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(102, 0, 153);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-17/with-climate-losses-rising-central-banks-push-greener-finance" class="">With Climate Losses Rising, Central Banks Push Greener Finance ...<span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span></a></span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 102, 33); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 102, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(84, 84, 84); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">With </span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(106, 106, 106); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(106, 106, 106);"><b class="">Climate</b></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> Losses Rising, </span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(106, 106, 106); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(106, 106, 106);"><b class="">Central Banks</b></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> Push Greener Finance. By ... Report serves as roadmap to spur </span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(106, 106, 106); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(106, 106, 106);"><b class="">change</b></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> by banks, regulators.</span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(84, 84, 84); min-height: 11px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(102, 0, 153); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(102, 0, 153);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-02/central-banks-are-thinking-greener-as-climate-change-hits-policy" class="">Central Banks Are Thinking Greener as Climate Change Hits Policy ...<span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span></a></span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 102, 33); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 102, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 102, 33); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 102, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(119, 119, 119); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(119, 119, 119);">Apr 2, 2019 - </span><span class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(106, 106, 106); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(106, 106, 106);"><b class="">Climate change</b></span><span class="" style="color: rgb(84, 84, 84); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(84, 84, 84); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"> is increasingly affecting the world's </span><span class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(106, 106, 106); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(106, 106, 106);"><b class="">central banks</b></span><span class="" style="color: rgb(84, 84, 84); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(84, 84, 84); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"> and their monetary policies.</span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 102, 33); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 102, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 102, 33); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 102, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018NatCC...8..462C" class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(102, 0, 153);">Climate change challenges for central banks and financial regulators</a><a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018NatCC...8..462C" class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018NatCC...8..462C</a></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(119, 119, 119); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(119, 119, 119);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">by E Campiglio - 2018 - <a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS737US737&um=1&ie=UTF-8&lr&cites=3503031769075491609" class=""><span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(26, 13, 171); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 13, 171);">Cited by 20</span></a> - </span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(119, 119, 119); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(119, 119, 119);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS737US737&um=1&ie=UTF-8&lr&q=related:GSOniNVEnTD33M:scholar.google.com/" class=""><span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; 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