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A/Prof. Andrew Y Glikson Earth and climate scientist

   Of course the discussion/idea of "climate collapse" is bad for profits and the politicians they buy...
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-predicament-of-climate-scientists-on-the-road-to-a-super-tropical-earth.html or https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-predicament-of-climate-scientists-on-the-road-to-a-super-tropical-earth.html ;

As temperatures in large parts of the Earth are soaring (cf. 52.3°C in Delhi, flames engulf large regions in California, tornadoes ravage the Gulf of Mexico states, severe drought starve populations in southern Africa and climate extremes continue to taking over large parts of the Earth. 

Much like oncologists advising patients and their families of a terminal illness, so do climate scientists agonizing while reporting the advent of dangerous warming as temperatures rise and tipping points are broken.

 But while climate change has become more than evident, there is a heavy price to be paid by those who try to alert the public.
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Antarctica is losing ice at an average rate of more than 150 billion tons per year, and Greenland is losing more than 270 billion tons per year, adding to sea level rise. Some glaciologists and Arctic scientists consider the accelerated rate of glacial melt in Greenland and West Antarctica may result in little remaining ice over these terrains toward the end of the century, leading to sea level rise on the scale of many meters, with catastrophic consequences for coastal and river valley population centres.

The Arctic Ocean contains vast amounts of carbon accumulated during the Pleistocene ice ages. The greenhouse effect of methane traps up to 100 times more heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide within a 5 year period, and 72 times more within a 20 year period. Atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases – carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide – continued their climb during 2023 according to the latest measurements from NOAA and CIRES scientists. The current CO₂ growth rate threatens an irreversible shift in the state of the Earth climate through looming tipping points, including transient cooling events induced by flow of cold ice melt water into the oceans from Greenland and Antarctica; Glikson (2019).
DJ...of course climate collapse does cause pandemics...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction 

In latest news I opened an item on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denialism or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denialism ....

Who needs science anyway ? 

Here in NL https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_stikstoffuik 
is selling very well ! The same "writer" produced also a "book" denying climate collapse...

"We do not want to know"...Do not look up ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Look_Up or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Look_Up 

...so.."close your eyes and let's imagine there is no climate collapse"....That will work !
There is little evidence that climate science had much of an effect on the outcome of the Paris Agreement. The warming target of +1.5°C has already been breached over the continents or is masked by the reflective albedo of transient sulphur aerosols. At the current growth rate of ~3 ppm/year CO₂ will rise closer to the stability threshold of the polar ice sheets.
Little encouragement can be gained from the non-binding promises emerging from climate conferences, which James Hansen described as a “fraud”.
While the implications of the global climate emergency have reached the defence establishment, the world continues to spend near to $2.4 trillion each year on the military instead on the protection of life.

As the portents for a major mass extinction of species are rising – who will defend life on Earth?

A/Prof. Andrew Y Glikson
Earth and climate scientist

DJ, We need another "revolution" when politics only cares for profits...