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It’s settled: 90–100% of climate experts agree on human-caused global warming by Dana Nuccitelli, (Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian) attracted the most comments among the articles posted on SkS during the past week. The gist of the article:
This SkS graphic summarises the studies into scientific consensus on human-caused global warming, that look at expert opinion of either climate scientists who have published peer-reviewed climate research, or peer-reviewed climate papers.
Hat tip to I Heart Climate Scientists
Meeting the goals of a new global agreement to tackle climate change will require social change on an almost unprecedented scale, sustainable investment experts said on Thursday.
That includes shifting trillions of dollars each year into renewable energy - up from $345 billion last year - and making everything from transport to agriculture and consumer products much greener very quickly.
"This is about scale. It is about timing. It is about scope. We cannot move 500 companies and 200 investors in a few countries. We need to move everything," said Mindy Lubber, president of Ceres, a U.S.-based business sustainability group.
Failure to make big shifts fast would amount to putting our children and grandchildren in the path of a speeding bus, she told the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship in Oxford.
"We would each throw ourselves in front of a bus if it was coming at our child, regardless of our politics," she said. "We have got to change this debate so people understand... climate change is that bus."
To curb climate change, "we need to move everything" - investors by Laurie Goering, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Apr 14, 2016
"Climate change is the perfect pseudoscientific theory for a power-hungry politician because it can never be disproven," he* said.
*US Sen Ted Crux (R-TX) and candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination.
Global warming 'religion' costs too high: Ted Cruz by Matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, Apr 15, 2016
Consensus on consensus: a synthesis of consensus estimates on human-caused global warming, Cook et al, , ,
Global Warming Explained is one of the many Card Stacks created by the staff of the Vox e-magazine. The Global Warming Eplained cardstack consists of 20 electronic index cards that present a condensed answer to commonly asked questions about manmade climate change.
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