<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="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEHeNQlgWvRj3I3iMQsblF68qFQgEKg0IACoGCAowt6AMMLAmMJSCDg?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">'You have not seen anything yet,' climate activist Greta says ahead of Davos</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">LAUSANNE, Switzerland (Reuters) - Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and a crowd of some 10,000 protesters marched in the Swiss city of Lausanne on Friday ...</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqBggKMLegDDCwJg?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">Reuters<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">2 hours ago</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 115, 232); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 115, 232); min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/articles/CCAiC0tvQ18xck9BRlgwmAEB?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">Beyond Greta Thunberg: The uprising of youth climate activists<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">video_youtube</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Washington Post</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">1 hour ago</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><br class=""></span></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="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 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;"><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">***********************************</span></div><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;"><p class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(57, 57, 57); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(57, 57, 57); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="font-size: 12px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">As much as a decade ago a climate symposium organized to discuss the implications of a 4 C warmer world concluded, “Less than a billion people will survive.” Here Schellnhuber is </span><a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/08/23/earth-4c-hotter/" class="" style="font-size: 12px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">quoted</span></a><span class="" style="font-size: 12px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> as saying: “At 4 C Earth’s... carrying capacity estimates are below 1 billion people.” His words were echoed by professor Kevin Anderson of the U.K.’s Tyndall Centre for Climate Change: “Only about 10 per cent of the planet’s population would survive at 4 C.”</span></p><p class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(57, 57, 57); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(57, 57, 57); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px;">Similarly, in May of this year, Johan Rockström, current director of the Potsdam Institute <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/18/climate-crisis-heat-is-on-global-heating-four-degrees-2100-change-way-we-live" class=""><span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">opined</span></a> that in a 4 C warmer world: “It’s difficult to see how we could accommodate 8 billion people or even half of that.... it will be a turbulent, conflict-ridden world.” Meanwhile, greenhouse gas concentrations are still increasing.</span></p><p class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(57, 57, 57); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(57, 57, 57); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2019/09/18/Climate-Crisis-Wipe-Out/" class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);">https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2019/09/18/Climate-Crisis-Wipe-Out/</a></span></p><div class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">**********************************************</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 18, 18);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">"Right now, there is an enormously heated debate within the climate modelling community," said Earth system scientist Johan Rockstrom, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 18, 18);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">"You have 12 or 13 models showing sensitivity which is no longer 3C, but rather 5C or 6C with a doubling of CO2," he told AFP. "What is particularly worrying is that these are not the outliers."</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 18, 18);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Models from France, the US Department of Energy, Britain's Met Office and Canada show climate sensitivity of 4.9C, 5.3C, 5.5C and 5.6C respectively, Zelinka said.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">"Climate sensitivity has been in the range of 1.5C to 4.5C for more than 30 years. If it is now moving to between 3C and 7C, that would be tremendously dangerous."</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); 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; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 18, 18);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><<<a href="https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/1835479/new-climate-models-suggest-paris-goals-may-be-out-of-reach" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class="">https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/1835479/new-climate-models-suggest-paris-goals-may-be-out-of-reach</span></a>>></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">--</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">***************************************</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">Greta Thunberg boils the basics down to just 5 words:</b> “… and it will get worse.” </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">She adds that people don’t yet understand how severe the climate crisis actually is.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhQVustYV24" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhQVustYV24<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">She can say that because she knows climate scientists have making the same point; e.g., ….</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 85, 204); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><b class="">Camilo Mora:</b> “ …. our choices for deadly heat are now between more of it or a lot more of it.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><a href="https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/circoutcomes.117.004233" class="">https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/circoutcomes.117.004233<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(49, 68, 93); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(49, 68, 93);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><b class="">Michael Mann:</b> “</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">“</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">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 ... we are going to ... get worse and worse droughts, and heat waves, and super storms, and floods, and wildfires.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/climate-change-is-making-wildfires-more-extreme-heres-how" class="">https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/climate-change-is-making-wildfires-more-extreme-heres-how<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><b class="">Kate Marvel:</b> “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. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/151608/case-against-climate-pessimism" class="">https://newrepublic.com/article/151608/case-against-climate-pessimism<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><b class="">L. Olsen’s view:</b> <<<a href="https://mountainjournal.org/why-rising-temps-mean-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">https://mountainjournal.org/why-rising-temps-mean-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it</span></a>>></span></div></span></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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