<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><span style="color:rgb(13,13,13);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)"><div><h1 class="gmail-wi-article-title gmail-article-title-main" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.1rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-family:Merriweather,serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(42,42,42);white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:24px;line-height:1.37">World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency</h1></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail-pub-history-row gmail-clearfix" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:17px;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(42,42,42);white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div class="gmail-ww-citation-primary" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 15px 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;display:inline"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">BioScience</em>, biz088, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz088" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,111,183);text-decoration-line:none;word-break:break-word">https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz088</a></div></div><div class="gmail-pub-history-row gmail-clearfix" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:17px;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(42,42,42);white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div class="gmail-ww-citation-date-wrap" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 20px 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;display:inline-block"><div class="gmail-citation-label" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 5px 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:bold;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;display:inline">Published:</div> <div class="gmail-citation-date" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;display:inline">05 November 2019</div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biz088/5610806">https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biz088/5610806</a>

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:0.9375rem;line-height:1.7em;font-family:Merriweather,serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(42,42,42);white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">"Scientists have a moral obligation</strong> to clearly warn humanity of any catastrophic threat and to “tell it like it is.” On the basis of this obligation and the graphical indicators presented below, we declare, with more than 11,000 scientist signatories from around the world, clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:0.9375rem;line-height:1.7em;font-family:Merriweather,serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(42,42,42);white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Exactly 40 years ago, scientists from 50 nations met at the First World Climate Conference (in Geneva 1979) and agreed that alarming trends for climate change made it urgently necessary to act. Since then, similar alarms have been made through the 1992 Rio Summit, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, and the 2015 Paris Agreement, as well as scores of other global assemblies and scientists’ explicit warnings of insufficient progress (Ripple et al. <a class="gmail-link gmail-link-ref gmail-link-reveal gmail-xref-bibr" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,111,183);word-break:break-word">2017</a>). Yet greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are still rapidly rising, with increasingly damaging effects on the Earth's climate. An immense increase of scale in endeavors to conserve our biosphere is needed to avoid untold suffering due to the climate crisis (IPCC <a class="gmail-link gmail-link-ref gmail-link-reveal gmail-xref-bibr" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,111,183);word-break:break-word">2018</a>)."</p>-----------------------------------------------------
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</div><div><br></div><div>11,000 Scientists Declare Climate Emergency Warning World Faces Catastrophic</div><div>Threat </div><div><br></div>"More than 11,000 scientists from around the world have backed research that says the world is facing a climate emergency. The study, based on 40 years of data, says governments are failing to address the crisis. Writing in the journal Bioscience, the group says scientists have a moral obligation to warn humanity of catastrophic threats. Doctor Thomas Newsome from the University of Sydney is one of the lead authors. He says it's not too late to act, but time is running out.</span> "<div>--------------------------------------</div><div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett <br></div></div>