What you are about to read will shock you and is a landmark conclusion.
What’s at the heart of the climate problem and ‘why oh why’ are we not doing everything to stop it! It‘s my belief that MPs have bought into the mistake that ‘1.5 degrees C, by 2050 must be held to be safe.’ And 3.5 degrees extra by the end of the century is liveable and we have plenty of time to adjust. It isn’t safe and never was, it was just the lack of evidence when the original IPCC report was written. With thousands of dead all over Europe, fires burning all-over the world; due to the heat, it’s time to speak out and read the latest facts. Like all writers and journalists there is always a principle to uncover the truth. But what if the truth reveals something shocking, do we call it out? Unless it is completely too late, we need to expose the truth?
In August 21, the United Nations published their up-date on climate change from a document that was written earlier and out of date, but now known to be inaccurate and based on old research. There was that famous sentence called, ‘holding the 1.5 C, by 2050 to be safe.’ The UN Code Red statement Aug. 21, took this part out due to no reference to it. This means from now on, nothing is safe if we don’t get off this path-way. That means humans are on a crash course to disaster, which has already started!
On this path of Co2 release we are on, and with feed-backs already well under way, by 2080 AD, civilisation as we know it will have completely changed – and probable collapsed! That’s just 58 years’ time! In reality, it won’t just collapse at that date, but starting now, just get incrementally worse each year to the final outcome. The question then arises out of that: can we stop this in time? I am telling you this as we may just be able to if we do everything now!
Most people ask a question at this point – ‘will we then change fast enough to stop this disaster? And my answer to that question is, ‘unlikely.’ The only hope is governments around the world start to tell the truth, because the shocking information is – most ministers don’t understand the science papers given them, therefore, they still think that 1.5 C, over preindustrial times is safe. This is all too clear with the race to be the UK’s next PM. It is also evidential as governments are planning for the climate to get much worse and not putting in real measure to stop it now.
As mentioned above, in Aug. 21 the UN overwrote the sentence written a lot earlier about the 1.5 C, as at the time they did not know the full facts. Code Red statement in August 21 does not say ‘safe’ anymore. But most people don’t know this, including ministers and interviews. They keep quoting the old document for convenience.
This is why I don’t think we will change fast enough to save life on Earth: If COP 26 was to save the world, then it was a failure. Humans don’t like change. Co2 output is still rising fast, and the back-ground temperature is rising by 0.25 C, every 10 years, this means we will hit 1.5 around 2040, not 2050. Many trees are burning down or being chopped down faster than we can replant them; the north pole is melting very fast. The hardly understood feed-backs are now speeding up. President Biden is struggling to get his measures through, and most of the largest countries are doing little to make a difference.
But the most important reason is governments don’t really believe this is going to happen due to blatant science ignorance and misunderstanding of the 1.5 C mistake. There are normally three reactions to this type of revelation: ‘You should not depress me; I will live for today,’ or ‘I believe it’s very serious and I am looking into everything I can do.’
On top of what you are doing, what else can you do as an individual? I would encourage you to write to the government ministers and your MP every month, and tell them we must get a robust plan to save our nation from hunger, water shortages and climate change. And to help the world to do the same. I have come-out with the truth about government complicities not for the sake of it, but to save all of our destiny’s including the wildlife that are also suffering very badly.
There is no other priority.