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Buddhist websites and facebook groups relating to
the climate crisis
Societal implications of climate
breakdown
Science-based articles and papers showing why urgent
action is needed
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October
2018 UN Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) Report
The world’s leading climate scientists have
warned there is only a dozen years for
global warming to be kept to a maximum of
1.5C, beyond which even half a degree will
significantly worsen the risks of drought,
floods, extreme heat and poverty for
hundreds of millions of people.
Johathan Watts, Global
Environmental Editor, Guardian
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Interpretation
of the October 2018 IPCC Report
Today’s
teenagers are absolutely right to be up in
arms about climate change, and right that
they need powerful images to grab people’s
attention. Yet some of the slogans being
bandied around are genuinely frightening
....
Myles Allen,
Professor of Geosystem Sciene. Leader of
ECI Climate Research Program, University
of Oxford
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Trajectories of the
Earth System in the Anthropocene
Abstract: We explore the risk that
self-reinforcing feedbacks could push the
Earth System toward a planetary threshold
that, if crossed, could prevent
stabilization of the climate at intermediate
temperature rises and cause continued
warming on a “Hothouse Earth” pathway even
as human emissions are reduced.
Professor
Will Steffen, Climate Change Insitute,
ANU, et al.
Note: this is an academic paper that
went viral. The whole paper is hard to
engage with for the general public, but
the general points made are clear.
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Time
to Re-think the Climate Change Challenge
There is likely to be much more at stake in
transgressing the Paris climate targets than
just a slightly warmer planet.
Professor Will
Steffen, Climate Change Insitute, ANU
Note: this article is a readable summary
of the academic paper above, but without
the detail.
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UN
Environment Programme (UNEP) Emissions
Gap Report, November 2018
The report suggests that existing nationally
determined contributions (NDCs) under the
Paris Agreement are not sufficient. It adds
that emission reductions from climate
pledges need “to be roughly tripled” to
limit warming to well below 2C above
pre-industrial levels in 2100. Holding
warming below 1.5C would require existing
commitments to be “increased around
fivefold”.
Zeke
Hausfather, Carbon Brief
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What
Lies Beneath: The Understatement of
Existential Climate Risk
What Lies Beneath is an important report. It
does not deliver new facts and figures, but
instead provides a new perspective on the
existential risks associated with
anthropogenic global warming. ....
Climate change is now reaching the end-game,
where very soon humanity must choose between
taking unprecedented action, or accepting
that it has been left too late and bear the
consequences. Therefore, it is all the more
important to listen to non-mainstream voices
who do understand the issues and are less
hesitant to cry wolf.
From the foreword by Hans
Joachim Schellnhuber, professor of
theoretical physics specialising in
complex systems and nonlinearity, founding
director of the Potsdam Institute
for Climate Impact Research (1992-2018)
and former chair of the German
Advisory Council on Global Change. He is a
senior climate advisor to the European
Union, the German Chancellor and Pope
Francis.
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Two videos of Greta Thunberg
Outside the Buddhist community
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