Earth is in deep trouble, says IPCC report

[ErikJ]

WWF Global-Posted on 31 March 2014 |

Yokohama, Japan – A UN climate impact report, released today, gives the clearest and most comprehensive evidence yet that the earth we call home is in deep trouble. It reinforces the sobering view that climate change is real, it’s happening now and it’s affecting the lives and the livelihoods of people as well as the sensitive ecosystems that sustain life.

This is the second in a series of four reports being prepared by the world’s leading climate authorities in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It assesses the impacts, adaptation and vulnerability of human and natural systems, the observed impacts and future risks of climate change, and the potential for and limits to adaptation.

Samantha Smith, leader of the WWF Global Climate & Energy Initiative says the report highlights, for the first time, the dramatic difference of impacts between a world where we act now to cut emissions, which now come mostly from using fossil fuels; and a world where we fail to act quickly and at scale.

“This report tells us that we have two clear choices: cut emissions now and invest in adaption - and have a world that has challenging and just barely manageable risks; or do nothing and face a world of devastating and unmanageable risks and impacts.”

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[Art_from_Ark]

1. It's not just emissions that are a problem

Out-of-control urbanization and deforestation, for example, are largely overlooked but are nonetheless important factors in climate change.

[Junkdrawer]

3. Visually:

[daleanime]

2. K&R....

[RobertEarl]

4. The earth will be fine

It is the humans that are in trouble.

Mind you the humans who live close to the earth will not have as much trouble as the jet set. The high fliers will be grounded, their goodies cut way back and workers flipping them the bird when they ask for more than they deserve.

Ports will flood. Cutting ocean commerce by a great deal. By the time the ports are rebuilt on higher ground the new ice age will begin leaving the new ports high and dry and unable to do commerce.

Goodies will become very scarce and money will not matter because the refugees from flooded lands will not have any. The best they will have is some food in their bellies and some shelter.

The earth will change as it always has. And the human's lives will also change, as their lives always have.

If you are young, prepare for the worst. Us old farts will either get by for a few more years, or we won't.

These are interesting times. Oh, my view, which has a small chance at being right, is that a major change will come sooner than expected. Let's hope it smooths out, but change is coming.

[cui bono]

8. Not just humans. Probably most animals/mammals that we are familiar with.

But life will continue in some form or another. And in a couple million years there will be history lessons about how we roamed the earth for far less time than other creatures due to our greed and self-importance.

[MFM008]

5. why i enjoy

earth without people show......

[msongs]

6. the earth is NOT in trouble....says george carlin, and I agree with him...

[msongs]

7. ps..ignore the comments made by the person who posted the video on youtube, he/she

is too dumb to get the content of the carlins remarks lol

[NickB79]

16. I doubt that most people associate Earth in this context with the phsycial planet

Even the dumbest climate change deniers I've argued with don't think anyone's worried we're gonna damange the physical crust, mantle and core of the planet.

It's a pretty safe bet that, when someone says "the Earth is in danger" people interpret that to mean the biosphere of the Earth is in danger, since that's what we interact with and rely upon for survival every second of our lives.

[DeSwiss]

9. What a BULLSHIT headline. n/t

[Enthusiast]

10. How so?

[DeSwiss]

11. msongs said it for me already.....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4757584

- Such verbiage as shown in this headline simply displays the arrogance of man. Gaia has been here circling our star for 4.5 billion years. She ain't the one in trouble.

[Berlum]

12. "Hey. Look over here you smelly proles. We just paid for a big batch of new lies." - Republicons

"Ya got nuttin to worry about (smirk). See right here. Our new, improved lies say that, um, this is, um, a liberal conspiracy (smirk). And just screw it all, and stuff. So party on, you crazy mofos, like there's, um, no tomorrow. Smirk."

- Republicons, Inc. (R - 1%)

[leftyohiolib]

13. maybe all old white guys should be on the terrorists watch list

[RandoLoodie]

14. The Earth doesn't need us

we need it.

[Bosso 63]

15. Maybe we are just the yeast in a very large fermentation process.

Of course, it doesn't work out well for the yeast, but eventually something good does come out of it.

Cheers!

[Lady Freedom Returns]

17. K and R