Yes, we’ve heard this before, again, and again, and again. Further, I’m not sure this fellow qualifies as a “Top Climate Scientist”.
From some website called GritPost:
Top Climate Scientist: Humans Will Go Extinct if We Don’t Fix Climate Change by 2023
A top climate scientist is warning that climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years.
In a recent speech at the University of Chicago, James Anderson — a professor of atmospheric chemistry at Harvard University — warned that climate change is drastically pushing Earth back to the Eocene Epoch from 33 million BCE, when there was no ice on either pole. Anderson says current pollution levels have already catastrophically depleted atmospheric ozone levels, which absorb 98 percent of ultraviolet rays, to levels not seen in 12 million years.
Anderson’s assessment of humanity’s timeline for action is likely accurate, given that his diagnosis and discovery of Antarctica’s ozone holes led to the Montreal Protocol of 1987. Anderson’s research was recognized by the United Nations in September of 1997. He subsequently received the United Nations Vienna Convention Award for Protection of the Ozone Layer in 2005, and has been recognized by numerous universities and academic bodies for his research.
While some governments have made commitments to reduce carbon emissions (Germany has pledged to cut 95 percent of carbon emissions by 2050), Anderson warned that those measures were insufficient to stop the extinction of humanity by way of a rapidly changing climate. Instead, Anderson is calling for a Marshall Plan-style endeavor in which all of the world takes extreme measures to transition off of fossil fuels completely within the next five years.
Recovery is all but impossible, he argued, without a World War II-style transformation of industry—an acceleration of the effort to halt carbon pollution and remove it from the atmosphere, and a new effort to reflect sunlight away from the earth’s poles.
This has do[sic] be done, Anderson added, within the next five years.
“The chance that there will be any permanent ice left in the Arctic after 2022 is essentially zero,” Anderson said, with 75 to 80 percent of permanent ice having melted already in the last 35 years.
Anderson’s prediction of Arctic sea ice disappearing by 2022 may be closer to reality than a lot of us would hope. In 2016, University of Reading professor Ed Hawkins compiled global temperature data dating back to 1850, prior to the Industrial Revolution of the early 20th century and the oil boom, and turning the data into a time-lapse GIF. The most alarming part of the data showed that temperatures began rising exponentially faster at the start of the 21st century and show no signs of slowing down:
Spiralling global temperatures from 1850-2016 (full animation) https://t.co/YETC5HkmTr pic.twitter.com/Ypci717AHq
— Ed Hawkins (@ed_hawkins) May 9, 2016
Yawn…
Full story here if you want to bother with it.
“James Anderson — a professor of… “? I wonder what he was saying when back in the 70’s about the pending “Ice Age”? Maybe he is not old enough to remember.
What a relief! We’ve been given another five year extension! Oh, this is wonderful news. It’s almost as surprising as the last five year extension. And the one before that. And the one before that…
Why even give light and oxygen to Alarmageddon crap like this?
Kicking climate straw dog again. Anderson’s obvious target is the Marshall Plan itself, and any new manifestations very likely to appear. Smearing this with green slime is the oligarchy’s game.
Right now we need a Marshall Plan for Africa – urgent development of the Chad region. The EU is smearing this right now with greenie “small is beautifull” concentration camps , sorry sustainable detention centers.
China’s BRI is a super-Marshall Plan , busy in Africa, Central America, everyone invited onboard. Trump likes big ideas, and with Putin, Xi Jinping could very easily spread massive development.
Trumps US infrastructure was blocked not by Obama’s greenie holdovers, but Wall Street.
Enter the green slimeball again. Ozone, CO2, plastic, whatever, only to grab the future and attempt to bury it.
The sheer hysteria of 5 years shows the desperation – they are loosing the plot.
Sigh, a planetary savior’s job is never done. If it’s not one thing, it’s another. First, the ozone hole, now CO2 emissions. He takes credit for former, only to be slammed to the turf by the latter. It’s like a horse that wins the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, only to lose by a nose in the Belmont Stakes. I mean, 2/3rds of a Triple Crown is damn good, but no one remembers them because they didn’t win the biggest enchilada- oh, sorry trigger warning, cultural appropriation of a Mexican food euphemism.
Another communist 5-year plan?
Their predictions are becoming annoying!
I love how the guy blames only American companies at the end and not the actual largest contributors in China and India. Also why do the comments on the article buy this shit up? Are people really that depressed?
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Near as I can tell human extinction is what they’ve been shooting for. Or at least 95%. Leaving only the elites and a few serfs to serve them.
Isn’t it marvelous how scientists like to propose physically impossible solutions to their imaginary problems. Just exactly how can 80% of the world’s energy usage be replaced by carbon free sources in 5 years?
“Full story here if you want to bother with it.”
Umm…No thanks!!
Let’s see… Pre-humans evolved before the last glacial maximum and the resulting Homo sapiens (that’s us) evolved during the last glacial maximum reaching over a million of us bipedal animals that stopped dragging our knuckles on the ground. Yet, by the end of the last glacial maximum we were reduced to around half a million because the majority of other plants and animals were dying off from the lack of carbon dioxide to feed the flora that the fauna eats. Along came the solar maximum cycles to start melting the ice that had covered nearly half of the northern hemisphere’s land mass. A large amount of the carbon dioxide was sequestered in the ice and cold water covering nearly half of the earth – only around the equator was warm during summers and where most of the flora and fauna had survived – started slowly being released back into the warming climate. For the past 10,000 plus years the Earth had been recovering from mass extinction and the exponential increase of flora and fauna due to this Global Warming is because the sequestered carbon dioxide is still recovering too. The carbon dioxide is only a third of what flora needs to flourish and 57 (+/- percentage points) degrees Fahrenheit is still cold for most life forms. it has been those few global cooling spells like the little Ice Age that have prevented Earth from recovering faster. And because there is still Polar Ice… we are still living in the Last Ice Age. So people like those hacks that use scare tactics of the evils of carbon dioxide, global warming and climate change are ignorant idiots.
The “mass extinction” (actually only megafauna and species directly dependent on the megafauna) was mostly due to human hunting, not climate.
We had a hundred months to fix CO2 emissions or we were doomed. We did not do so and are still here. If a supplier fails to provide a working product and in this context the scientists are a supplier of a danger warning, there is no reason we should be expected to take any notice of any further output and certainly not to base any of our actions on the supplier’s information.
Academics at it again!
They forgot to mention the drastic “bushfire” effect that puts huge amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, certainly a lot more than what is otherwise man made.
Perhaps time to stop all bushfires and burn offs!
Yes there are some changes taking place and no doubt would be as the normal course of events.