Exclusive: Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of hundreds of scientists finds

Almost 80% of the respondents, all from the authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), foresee at least 2.5C of global heating above preindustrial levels, while almost half anticipate at least 3C (5.4F). Only 6% thought the internationally agreed 1.5C (2.7F) limit will be met.

“I think we are headed for major societal disruption within the next five years,” said Gretta Pecl, at the University of Tasmania. “[Authorities] will be overwhelmed by extreme event after extreme event, food production will be disrupted. I could not feel greater despair over the future.”

"The world’s response to date is reprehensible – we live in an age of fools.”

Lisa Schipper, at University of Bonn in Germany, said: “My only source of hope is the fact that, as an educator, I can see the next generation being so smart and understanding the politics.”

  • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
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    8 months ago

    Lisa Schipper, at University of Bonn in Germany, said: “My only source of hope is the fact that, as an educator, I can see the next generation being so smart and understanding the politics.”

    This weapons grade copium is enough to give every global south nation their own nuclear weapons program.

    • itappearsthat
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      8 months ago

      They will be able to voooooooote for their leaders who all hail from the uh, generation who thinks none of this is real

      I remember all the articles 15 years ago about how millenials are killing car ownership. Now all the cishet white millenials I went to college with turned out to be center-right at best and perfectly reproduced the boomer lifestyle.

      • barrbaric [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        It's all about material conditions. If cost of living continues to spike (and why wouldn't it?), younger people will generally get more radicalized.

        Unfortunately they're going to radicalize towards fascism because there's a multi-billion dollar propaganda network pushing it.

    • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
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      8 months ago

      Not to mention that all of these "good politics" are contingent on global North chauvinism. Ask the average German student with good politics what they think about demographic growth or industrialization in the Global South and the hitler-detector will go off the charts.