"We must turn the recovery from the pandemic into a real opportunity to build a better future."
"The findings of the report are yet again another reminder that while we are busy finding ways out of the COVID-19 crisis and still analysing what went wrong in the last fire season, climate change continues to build the foundation of what will be the biggest ever global crisis if we don't do more to mitigate it, and quickly," CSIRO scientist Dr Pep Canadell said in a statement."There is a one-in-four chance that the global mean annual temperature will exceed 1.
In the Arctic, where temperatures have been so high this year that nearby land has thawed and sparked more than 100 wildfires, more carbon dioxide has spewed into the air than in any other year on record. "Globally, we are wholly unprepared for higher temperatures, more drought and floods, melting ice sheets and rising sea levels threatening coastal and island communities such as Torres Strait Islanders," CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere scientist Dr Eva Plaganyi said in a statement.
The 2016 Paris Agreement, signed by 189 countries, promised to work towards reducing global warming to just 1.5C above temperatures seen in pre-industrial times.Brewster Glacier in New Zealand photographed during the 2020 End of Summer Snowline Survey. The glacier has been stripped of nearly all snow, leaving only bare, blue-coloured ice. Such glaciers are not sustainable in a warming climate.
"Australia's political debate seems entirely disconnected from the scientific realities captured in the United in Science report," he said in a statement.
COVID-19, Climate Paranoia, Vaccination Plans for Billions of People around the Globe and the list goes on. The UN has degenerated to a Panic Orchestra in the Service of international NGO`s and private Sponsors such as Bill Gates, who donated US$ 600 000.