How Climate Change Became Apocalyptic | Climate Dispatch

How Climate Change Became Apocalyptic | Climate Dispatch
"In recent years, the issue of climate change has taken a decidedly apocalyptic turn.

• Earlier this week United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned, “If we don’t urgently change our way of life, we jeopardize life itself.”
• A group of scientists writes that we “might already have lost control” over “tipping points” in the Earth’s climate, warning that the “stability and resilience of our planet is in peril.”

...But the escalation of apocalyptic climate rhetoric in recent years is unprecedented.
The drumbeat of doom has led some prominent figures to turn on the mainstream climate community, complaining that “climate scientists have been underestimating the rate of climate change and the severity of its effects.”
In reality, climate science has not just accurately anticipated unfolding climate change but has done so consistently for the past 50 years.
There is thus an inconsistency here.
Discussions of climate change have become more apocalyptic, but climate science has not..."
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