Freaked-out climate scientists urge other freaked-out climate scientists to speak up, fight Man

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Freaked-out climate scientists urge other freaked-out climate scientists to speak up, fight Man

You say climate chaos is HOW close?! In my previous post , I discussed some new modeling which shows that avoiding climate chaos — limiting average global temperature rise to 2 degrees, generally agreed to be the threshold of danger — is still possible, but just barely, and only with massive, immediate, coordinated global action. Can we make the radical changes necessary to meet that challenge? No, say climate scientists Kevin Anderson and Alice Bows in a recent commentary in Nature Climate Change , not “within orthodox political and economic constraints.” There is no political or economic constraint more orthodox than the primacy of economic growth. No solution to climate change that threatens economic growth can get any traction at all — even the most “alarmist” climate hawks fear to tread there. Which is too bad, Anderson and Bows say, because “climate change commitment...

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@grgblee » 01 Oct '12, 11pm
"Freaked-out climate scientists..." Wot say, @jameslunneymp, close enough to the cliff? Time for #climate action yet? [link]
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@Allochthonous » 24 Sep '12, 11pm
‘We either give up economic growth…for a little while or suffer a climate that will reverse economic growth long-term’ [link]
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Freaked out climate scientists try to get other freaked out climate scientist to ..speak up Man! [link]
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Your money or your life. and your kids lives too. Sad truth: climate change incompatible with economic growth.[link]
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Should scientists be more outspoken on politics? Some freaked-out climate scientists think so| Grist [link]
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Can we make the radical changes needed to stave off climate chaos? No, say scientists, not "within orthodox... [link]
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This article speaks to my multidisciplinary heart. [link]
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Good article on the role of freaked out climate scientists. via @grist by David Roberts. [link]
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Climate scientists despair [link] Citizens must act! How? [link] Vancouver Public Library Fri 7:30p @stopcoalBC
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There is no political or economic constraint more orthodox than the primacy of economic growth. #ClimateChange [link]
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#Climate Scientists worry abt "last chance salon" for 2degC concerned the "growth paradigm" is key political barrier [link]
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Waarom de strijd tegen #klimaatverandering in de huidige politieke en sociale situatie geen momentum krijgt: [link] #growth
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These: Entweder wir geben unser #Wachstum sparadigma freiwillig auf oder der #Klimawandel zwingt uns dazu: [link] (via @grist)
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