<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=""><<<a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/how-to-avoid-a-catastrophic-hothouse-earth" class="">https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/how-to-avoid-a-catastrophic-hothouse-earth</a>>><br class=""><div 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 style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">************************************************</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">A recent Ambio article by some heavyweights in climate sets out the situation well enough. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">A team including the likes of Will Steffen, Paul Crutzen, Veerabhadren Ramathan, Johan Rockstrom, Marten Scheffer and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber begin the <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3357752/" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">abstract of their article</span></a> by saying “Over the past century, the total material wealth of humanity has been enhanced …”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">They end it saying,“we risk driving the Earth System onto a trajectory toward more hostile states from which we cannot easily return.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Their analysis is echoed across the scientists side of the situation. But it doesn’t take a scientist to get the drift of what’s going on. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Liam Denning is former investment banker, former editor of one of the Wall Street Journal’s most closely read columns —Heard on the Street — and a former columnist for Financial Times. Writing about need for the Green New Deal for <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-11/the-green-new-deal-is-unrealistic-get-real" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Bloomberg</span></a>, Denning has come to the conclusion that, “We have built our standard of living on forms of energy that we now know pose a threat to our very existence,” and that, “this is a conversation that is long overdue — and necessarily begins with a shout, not a whisper.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/14/heat-and-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/" class="">https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/14/heat-and-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/</a></span></div></div></div>
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