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As Hurricane Michael is heading toward Florida and forecasted to make its landfall as a category 4 storm at the Florida Panhandle on Wednesday, Florida Governor Rick Scott is declaring state of emergency in 35 Florida counties and  Alabama Governor Kay Ivey declaring state of emergency for the entire state of Alabama. Florida is preparing for the massive storm due to arrive while the new report from the United Nation’s climate panel is warning us that humanity has only a dozen years to mitigate climate change or limit the scope of  global catastrophe. Otherwise, millions will be imperiled by increasing droughts, floods, fires and poverty. The U.N. Meteorological Chief, Petteri Taalas, urges immediate and unprecedented changes to global policy in order to keep global warming at a maximum of 1.5ºC. The IPCC report lays out several possible pathways to limit global warming to 1.5ºC: transition in land use and transportation systems, adoption of future technologies, including removing CO2 from the atmosphere. According to the report, global carbon net emission needs to fall by 45% from 2010 level by 2030, and reach net zero around 2050.

In the video “Climate Scientist:As U.N. arms of Global Catastrophe, We Need a “Marshall Plan” for Climate Change” below, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! speaks with Kevin Anderson, Zennström professor in climate change leadership at the Centre for Environment and Development Studies at Uppsala University and chair of energy and climate change at the Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research at the University of Manchester in Britain. He says that the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report fails to hold the world’s highest emitters accountable and argues a “Marshall Plan” for climate change is necessary to save the planet from destruction. “About 70 percent of global emissions of carbon dioxide comes from about 20 percent of the world population. … When we try to address climate change and reduce our emissions by focusing on all 7.5 billion people, I think it misunderstands where the actual responsibility of emissions resides,” Anderson says. “We’re not developing policies that need to be tailored to that particular 20 percent.” He also stated that there has been much evidences that the severity of recent weather conditions such as hurricanes are due to climate change and burning of fossil fuels and releasing of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. He feels strongly that the U.S. meteorologists, during forecasts in USA,  should clearly state the link between these severe weather conditions and  additional warming we’ve put into the atmosphere by burning of fossil fuels. Anderson also reminds us that there will be much job opportunities in the retrofitting of current infrastructure to transition into technology suitable for 21st century, with cleaner and safer technology of the future. 

 When being asked, “What will the world look like if the current trend continues?” Professor Anderson responded, “We will be seeing far more famines, draughts, floods, changes in food patterns, more tensions within and between communities. As we head toward 4ºC of warming, we’re talking about the breaking down of many of the ecosystem of the world that pollinates our crops, that makes our air clean for us. “

Scientists say the world is completely off track, in the video “Why we’re heading for a ‘climate catastrophe‘” below:

As Hurricane Michael barrelled down on Florida, famed climate scientist Dr. James Hansen traveled to Minnesota earlier this week to testify on the imminent danger of climate change. He was supposed to be an expert witness at the trial for the “Valve Turners,” the anti-pipeline activists who staged an unprecedented coordinated action to shut down the flow of oil from the United States to Canada in 2016. But the judge ruled she would not allow witnesses like Dr. Hansen to testify on the clear and present danger posed by climate change. On Tuesday, valve turner activists Annette Klapstein and Emily Johnston were acquitted. Amy Goodman speaks with Hansen in Minneapolis about the Valve Turners, the recent IPCC report about the imminent threat of climate change and what must be done to save the planet from destruction. Hansen is the former top climate scientist at NASA. He is now the director of climate science awareness and solutions at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. Klapstein and Johnston speak in the video “Ex-NASA Scientist Dr. James Hansen: We Need to Act Now to Preserve Our Planet For Future Generations” below:

Note from editor: although much work had been done, such as electric vehicles, which will not require much government incentives any more. There are still some areas that would benefit from government’s incentives and policies: researches in manufacturing process of steel (using electrolysis instead of heat) and concrete and reduction of cow’s flatulence (methane from livestock contributes to 39% of all the greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture) by modifying cows’ diet (tested seaweeds Asparagopis taxiformis in cows’ stomachs would help to cut methane production by 99%) would be welcomed.
Gathered, written, and posted by Windermere Sun-Susan Sun Nunamaker
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