Escalating rhetoric comes as new study shows there’s just six years left to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius at current CO2 emissions rate

Graph showing increasing use of 'climate emergency' in academic literature from 7 examples in 2008 to 96 in 2018 to 862 uses in 2002.

  • Ordoabchao@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    We are boned and Earth is going to ice-age us, eventually. After raising the sea level and flooding many inhabitated areas, turning arable land into desert while our weather system takes a dive.

    Winter hasn’t even properly set in where I live, and it’s basically November. It’s still 13c outside…