Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you dire news on this sad Monday.
We have only 10 years to stop global warming or else it will be too late for us all.
Don't take my word for it: Listen to Jill Wine-Banks of MSNBC!
Sad! Not good!
"Hot enough to melt lead."
Earth is likely to cross a critical threshold for global warming within the next decade, and nations will need to make an immediate and drastic shift away from fossil fuels to prevent the planet from overheating dangerously beyond that level, according to a major new report released on Monday.
Like I said, we only have 10 years.
That's just one decade! If we don't act now, we'll all be dead in 1̶9̶9̶0̶ ̶2̶0̶0̶0̶ ̶2̶0̶0̶6̶ ̶2̶0̶1̶3̶ ̶2̶0̶2̶0̶ ̶2̶0̶2̶3̶ 2033!
Here's how the lefties reacted:
More from the U.N. prediction this week:
Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of ″eco-refugees,′ ′ threatening political chaos, said Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program, or UNEP.
He said governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control.
As the warming melts polar icecaps, ocean levels will rise by up to three feet, enough to cover the Maldives and other flat island nations, Brown told The Associated Press in an interview on Wednesday.
Coastal regions will be inundated; one-sixth of Bangladesh could be flooded, displacing a fourth of its 90 million people. A fifth of Egypt's arable land in the Nile Delta would be flooded, cutting off its food supply, according to a joint UNEP and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency study.
Ah, whoops!
My bad.
That wasn't from this week!!
That was from this AP story in 1989.
Sometimes even famous journalists like myself have trouble keeping the prophecies straight. I apologize.
Anyway, back to this week for real, where the UN experts on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change say we are completely doomed for sure this time.
There is still one last chance to shift course, the new report says. But it would require industrialized nations to join together immediately to slash greenhouse gases roughly in half by 2030 and then stop adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere altogether by the early 2050s. If those two steps were taken, the world would have about a 50 percent chance of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
The only solution is to create a one-world government that takes the rights of all people away in the name of c̶o̶m̶m̶u̶n̶i̶s̶m̶ – I mean, p̶o̶w̶e̶r̶ – err, climate!
Dang this keyboard of mine!
The difference between 1.5 degrees of warming and 2 degrees might mean that tens of millions more people worldwide experience life-threatening heat waves, water shortages and coastal flooding. A 1.5-degree world might still have coral reefs and summer Arctic sea ice, while a 2-degree world most likely would not.
"It's not that if we go past 1.5 degrees everything is lost," said Joeri Rogelj, director of research at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at Imperial College London. "But there's clear evidence that 1.5 is better than 1.6, which is better than 1.7, and so on. The point is we need to do everything we can to keep warming as low as possible."
WE'RE DOOMED!
DOOMED!
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Remember, there might be data models that have been purposely altered and you might be seeing record snowfall and flooding in California, but stop using your eyes and ears. This is the final, more urgent command.
