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THE CLIMATE CRISIS IS HERE.
FURTHER CLIMATE CATASTROPHE IS COMING.
WE NEED ACTION NOW.

There is a strong scientific consensus on human-caused climate change. In the fall of 2018, hundreds of the world’s climate experts issued an urgent call to climate action via the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5º C and the United States Global Change Research Program’s Fourth National Climate Assessment. The growing threat of abrupt climate disruption constitutes a state of local, regional, hemispheric, and planetary crisis on a scale never witnessed before in humankind's history. Climate disruption consequences are disproportionately suffered by low-income communities, communities of color, and other traditionally marginalized groups, and they will therefore constitute one of the most significant and most predictable forms of injustice in the 21st century. The cascade of irreversible social and ecological impacts resulting from climate change demands a new level of ethical leadership and an unprecedented transformation of institutions at all levels of society.

 

Inaction imperils the prospects of humankind.

The IPCC Special Report:

Global Warming of 1.5ºC

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2018 report explains the difference in consequences between global warming of 1.5ºC and 2ºC. Due to the severe increase in consequences just in that 0.5ºC difference, the report advises that urgent action be taken to mitigate global warming. 

The Fourth National Climate Assessment
(United States Global Change Research Program 2018) 

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