Last Updated 11.13.23

A new major climate change  study has just been released which dramatically increases the IPCC's serious underestimation and error problems considerably. We strongly recommend you start with this article and then come back and read the page below.

Introduction

Alvin Urquhart, a Job One advisory board member, created this article. It is recommended if you are a science person and want to see the complex and detailed science and mathematics behind how the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has grossly underestimated our coming climate consequences and their time frames by significantly minimizing the Climate Sensitivity calculation amount. (Climate Sensitivity is a constant used in and relied upon in many of the most critical and complex calculations relating to predicting our climate change future.)

If you do not understand climate sensitivity, we strongly recommend you read this definition. Understanding it and having it correct is indispensable to predicting our climate future accurately. 

The following article is partially derived from the 2050 Goals of the IPCC. The article below also refers to James Hansen's (the world-famous former NASA climate scientist) most recent and scary article on climate change's climate-sensitive problems at the IPCC. (We did a brief review of Hansen's new climate sensitivity article here. Hansen's climate science in his climate sensitivity article was dense, so we tried to make it more understandable to the general public in this article here. This article links to Hansen's full paper as well.)

This article, along with James Hansen's original climate sensitivity article, helps to explain one of the biggest reasons why our organization consistently says that the IPCC's summary reports, on average, are underestimated between 20 to 40% or more.

And finally, Dr. Peter Carter, another climate scientist, has brought up the issue of climate sensitivity errors at the IPCC even before James Hansen. Dr. Peter Carter's earlier climate sensitivity article is found here.

Difficulties in reaching the 2050 goals of the IPCC

Report 11: June 1, 2023

The IPCC has presented several scenarios of global warming, only one of which, scenario (RCP 2.6), met the goal of having a 50% chance of remaining below an increase of 1.50 C by 2050. At the other extreme, scenario (RCP 8.5–which approaches a continuation of business as usual), has the possibility of reaching over 50C warming by 2100.(RCP stands for Representative Climate Pathways.)

The IPCC goals of keeping global temperatures below 1.50 C by 2050 and at net zero (00C) by 2021 are highly unlikely because of:

1. difficulties in modeling and projecting the course of global warming;
2. inadequate concern about ‘tipping points’ that herald unstoppable increases.
3. inadequate pledges by national governments to reach the IPCC goals;
4. cultural inertia that resists changing attitudes and actions of nations, industries, and people;
5. and reliance on technology to solve the problems of global warming (I will discuss this in a later Report.)

Climate Forcing Gases. The growth of climate forcing greenhouse gases is shown in the diagram below. (Each gas forces the heat to rise and remain in the atmosphere differently.) If the present course of global heating is maintained, the climate forcing gases will increase temperatures. The red band (in Fig. 5 from Hansen et alia) represents trace gases including chlorofluorocarbons, which have declined since having been highly regulated since the late 1970s.

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Global warming in the pipeline James E. Hansen,et alia

Even the low, unattainable climate-forcing scenarios of the IPCC, do not reflect the more recent modifications of global models, which create pathways closer to RCP8.5. The pathways are chosen based on estimates of their sensitivity to global surface warming.

Climate sensitivity is defined as the equilibrium warming resulting from a doubling of atmospheric CO2. It is assumed that, in the long run, the heat of the Earth is in equilibrium when the heat coming to the Earth from the sun equals the heat leaving the Earth. Equilibrium slowly changes as the orbit of the Earth around the sun changes, as ice sheets grow and retreat, as land area and cover change, as clouds and water increase or decline, etc. The diagram below shows that as global forcing changed over the past 400,000 years so did the temperatures measured in water isotopes in Antarctic ice. This represents over 400,000 years of long-term equilibrium of the Earth. Since 1750, however, global forcing has greatly exceeded the near equilibrium.

       (In the diagram, 40C was the assumed metric of climate sensitivity since 1750.)  Global warming in the pipeline James E. Hansen,et alia

The importance of the level of climate sensitivity is in knowing how climate deviates from long range equilibrium and how global temperatures react to levels of CO2. As an example, the next diagram indicates that when a sensitivity is determined to be 30C, (i.e. deviates from equilibrium by 30C) a recorded temperature of 20C would be relatively stable when the concentration of CO2 remained under about (350-400 ppm). Whereas with a sensitivity determined to be 4.50C, a temperature of 30C would be stable when the concentration remained in the realm of 445-490 ppm of CO2. When climate sensitivity is larger,  the temperature when CO2 is doubled (Equilibrium Global Average Temperature) will also be much higher.

Of course, the relevance to humanity is that higher climate sensitivity means that temperatures will become higher and come faster when the levels of GHG increase. In the current climate crises, the use of a correct sensitivity determination is crucial to understanding the results of continued GHG emissions. Since 1979, the most used measure of ECS has varied from 1.50C to 4.50C. The IPCC uses 30C in the climate model on which it bases discussions about goal-setting and the ways to remain under their goal.

Factors in determining ECS

          (Climate sensitivity in the Anthropocene. M. Previdi, et alia Earth Syst. Dynam. Discuss., 2, 531–550, 2011)

Climate forcing initiates changes in atmospheric climate warming directly. But also, feedback mechanisms release stored heat as the Earth moves toward equilibrium as outlined in the description of Fig. 1a above. Especially notice the large amount of energy stored in the oceans and the potential for atmospheric climate warming through releasing its energy to the atmosphere. Studies of the possible feedback of heat stored in the oceans and the continents, and the melting of ice sheets and glaciers are in process.

K. von Schuckmann et al.: Heat stored in the Earth system Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 12, 2013–2041, 2020

One of these studies (J.Hansen et alia) has resulted in a ECS setting of about 100C.  [very far from the IPCC goal of net zero (00C) by 2100.] 

In addition studies of paleo-climates have led to refinements in understanding the ways aerosols affect global warming. An additional probable change from the present is that global heating may  increase because of a decline in cooling from aerosols. (Shown (Fig. 19) in the next diagram in yellow.) Before 1970, cooling by aerosols decreased global warming; although since then, reduced amounts of aerosols may even add to global warming. Overall, aerosol cooling may still reduce the possible  temperature anomaly by 30C , possibly resulting in an ECS of 70C.

(See Global warming in the pipeline James E. Hansen, Makiko Sato, Leon Simons, Larissa S. Nazarenko, Karina vonSchuckmann, Norman G. Loeb, Matthew B. Osman, Pushker Kharecha, Qinjian Jin, George Tselioudis, Andrew Lacis, Reto Ruedy, Gary Russell, Junji Cao, Jing Li).

Because heat is temporarily stored in the Earth, global equilibrium will remain out of balance for decades to come no matter what efforts humans can make to lower emissions of GHG. Eventual release of stored heat will result in increased feedback added to heat from CO2 that is directly emitted to the atmosphere.

2. Tipping Points (See the fuller explanation of tipping points in Understanding Critical Climate Change and Global Warming Tipping Points – Job One for Humanity)

Climate tipping points are the temperatures or levels of emission of energy that initiate or support radical further changes–often self reinforcing–to the Earth systems in which they are embedded. Once initiated, tipping points lead to further imbalances in the climate equilibrium and cannot be stopped until the climate system is greatly readjusted to an equilibrium. The Earth has already passed a tipping point where drastic climate changes have occurred such as increased flooding; heat domes, sea level rise, melting glaciers and ice sheets, etc.

The amount of greenhouse gases measured in carbon ppm indicates possible tipping points. Humanity is experiencing the first phase of a tipping point. The second chart below indicates probable consequences of passing a 1.5⁰C or greater tipping point.

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Some of probable tipping points and where on Earth they will occur.

3. IPCC Goals and National Determined Commitments NDC (2022).

GHG emission ranges. The most obvious problem of the climate model chosen by the IPCC–RCP2.6–that I discussed above is the disparity between the National Determined Commitments (NDC) and the selected goals. An illustration of part of the problem is shown by part of the projected increase in greenhouse gas emissions that outstrip the NDC pledges and far exceed the levels necessary to reach either a 1.50C or even a 20C goal. A simplified diagram indicates that even the National pledged reductions (NDC) are far above the 1.50 C goal of the IPCC and the projected increases in the emissions of continued ‘business as usual.’ increase of 2 times of CO2.

For over 50 years, conferences have alerted national leaders to the necessity of pledging and meeting those pledges if climate disasters were to be avoided or ameliorated.

To date, no progress has been reached in lowering the emissions of global atmospheric GHG; Greenhouse gasses continue to accumulate, delaying the possibility of meeting the IPCC goals.

Global warming in the pipeline James E. Hansen,et alia

The most recent report of the IPCC (2023) states that emissions of GHG need to be cut by almost half by 2030, if there is any chance that the 1.50C goal can be met. The diagram below showing predicted changes between 2020 and 2030 indicates that the gap between actual emissions and progress to the needed decline in emissions is widening. Thus indicating that the goals will not be met.

Other climate models that address the goal of 20C set by the IPCC fail to meet that goal.

One of the largest of these studies of climate models was done by The Washington Post in collaboration with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

                                                                                                                             (Washington Post 12/1/2022; updated 5/22/2023)

Potsdam Institute researchers rated the ability of over 1,200 scenarios based on their progress in meeting the 1.5°C goal by 2050. Each of five dimensions were rated as to their probability of meeting each of five dimensions. The three categories used were 1. speculative, 2. challenging, or 3. reasonable.

The five dimensions are:

1. Carbon dioxide removal and storage underground

2. Carbon dioxide removal using land

3. Carbon intensity reductions

4. Changing energy demand

5. Fewer methane emissions

For various reasons only 112 possible scenarios could possibly reach the goal. Of those scenarios, 86 were rejected because they indicated that the predicted temperatures would highly overshoot the IPCC goals. 26 pathways would result in only a temporarily low or no overshot of the 1.50C goal. And only 11 pathways are left when only challenging or reasonable dimensions were considered.

Of those, only 4 pathways remained even if ‘carbon dioxide removal and storage underground’ was not considered ‘reasonable’ but still considered ‘challenging’. If all categories were considered as merely reasonable, zero pathways remain.

The Washington Post concludes with the following statement:

“At the U.N. Climate Change Conference late last month, world leaders reaffirmed the 1.5C goal. But these scenarios show that without dramatic action–action the leaders did not commit to taking–it most likely will not be possible.

“Or at least, not without a major overshoot first. That is where the world is currently heading.”

Job One for Humanity diagrams the problems (JOFH).

JOFH’s diagram shows that severe climate warming will occur when the underestimation of global climate sensitivity (20-40%) as well as the effects of tipping points are added to the current IPCC predictions.

4. Cultural inertia

The inertia of society, politics, and economy is the main reason that climate warming is continuing today.

It is impossible to deny the benefits brought about by the burning of fossil fuels. Who can not appreciate better health, living longer, being able to move and communicate over huge distances, having food, services and goods from all over the world, having the opportunity of better education, and on and on? An acceleration of the “good life” so that everyone can appreciate it is a large part of “progress, development, and growth” that underlies world views today. Even intelligent leaders who are aware of climate warming still want “economic growth” to support the continuation of the extraordinary economic profits and social benefits of modern times.

Perhaps President Obama summed it up best at the end of his presidency:

If you had to choose a moment in history to be born, and you did not know ahead of time who you would be—you didn’t know whether you were going to be born into a wealthy family or a poor family, what country you’d be born in, whether you were going to be a man or a woman—if you had to choose blindly what moment you’d want to be born, you’d choose now.

As a simple example of the ways this is playing out in its most basic form has been shown by studies of the ways the fossil fuel industry, knowing the probable consequences of global heating, continue to exploit irreplaceable fossil fuels that underlie modern life. I include only one very powerful example of current disregard for continuing and accelerating climate disasters.

Carbon Bombs. The Guardian newspaper shows the fossil fuel industry’s and governmental regard to growth in production of fossil fuels in an article by Damian Carrington and Matthew Taylor. (Wed 11 May 2022 Last modified on Mon 3 Apr 2023 ;” Revealed: the ‘carbon bombs’ set to trigger catastrophic climate breakdown”)

“The fossil fuel industry’s short-term expansion plans involve the start of oil and gas projects that will produce greenhouse gases equivalent to a decade of CO2 emissions from China, the world’s biggest polluter.”

The next two diagrams show fossil fuel reserves and the impact on the global carbon budget in relation to the IPCC goal of 1.50C.

“These plans include 195 carbon bombs, gigantic oil and gas projects that would each result in at least a billion tonnes of CO2 emissions over their lifetimes, in total equivalent to about 18 years of current global CO2 emissions. About 60% of these have already started pumping.”

“The dozen biggest oil companies are on track to spend $103m a day for the rest of the decade exploiting new fields of oil and gas that cannot be burned if global heating is to be limited to well under 2C.”

“The Middle East and Russia often attract the most attention in relation to future oil and gas production but the US, Canada and Australia are among the countries with the biggest expansion plans and the highest number of carbon bombs. The US, Canada and Australia also give some of the world’s biggest subsidies for fossil fuels per capita.”

The article also indicates that the production of fossil fuels receives large governmental subsidies.

The shortcomings of the political realm are not only failure to agree to the weak goals of the IPCC but also failure to produce legislation that might require acceptance of those goals. Instead, in the United States, the Congress produced some legislation, such as the IRA, which relies on technology that has little chance of addressing the major issues of growth and expansion of the consumption of energy.

6. Technology

I will delay, to another report, commenting on the dependence on new, more efficient, or otherwise improved technologies to reach the IPCC goals.

The Climate Emergency Forum asked the Job One for Humanity climate change think tank Executive Director for an interview on the ClimateSafe Villages project. Over 5,000 people have seen it in the first weeks it has been on YouTube.

Providing young people worldwide with honest, realistic, and appropriate hope about their escalating climate change-affected future and how to survive it is absolutely critical.

Last updated 3.14.24. 

The Climate Justice Now program is designed around a simple goal that embodies the most profound meaning of climate justice. It is also based on a simple legal principle:

Those who have caused, facilitated, or enabled climate change loss and damage must be forced to pay for that loss and damage and be held liable for any criminal actions committed while doing so.

Homeowners, businesses, insurance companies, innocent investors, local, county, state, or national governments, or their innocent taxpayers must never be required to pay for the climate change loss and damage caused by the intentional and decades-long acts of the perpetrators of climate change. 

In other words, when you take all of the profits away from those parties causing climate change, the climate change crisis will end.

Why the Climate Justice Now program must expand worldwide?

There are many good reasons why the Climate Justice Now program must rapidly expand worldwide:

a. no previous climate change treaty has lowered or slowed greenhouse gases from fossil fuel burning, which causes global warming. 

b. none of the previous 28 COP international climate change conferences sponsored by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have lowered or slowed greenhouse gases from fossil fuel burning.  

c. not even decades of massive worldwide climate change street protests have stopped or even slowed climate change from worsening at even faster rates! 

d. every national, state, and local government aware of the climate change emergency has also utterly failed for over 60 years to do anything that has lowered the ever-rising toxic and polluting greenhouse gases going into the atmosphere.

e. Our politicians are so fossil fuel cartel compromised that nothing will get done to reduce global fossil use adequately or in time to avert mass extinction. (Our governments have failed primarily because of a massive, multi-billion dollar, decades-long climate change disinformation campaign created by the global fossil fuel cartel as described here.) 

f. If we do not focus most of our combined efforts on something more effective than what has been done for the last 60 years, we will soon experience a climate change nightmare resulting eventually in a global Climageddon event.

There is no doubt that our fossil fuel cartel-compromised politicians and governments have utterly failed to control the escalating climate change emergency. The best proof of their gross and embarrassing total failure is the ever-rising amounts of carbon (C02,) methane (CH4,) and other greenhouse gases in our atmosphere.

Atmospheric carbon, methane, and nitrous oxide levels ARE the most valid objective measurements that clearly show if our fossil fuel cartel-paralyzed politicians and governments are making legitimate progress in fixing climate change. 

As of February 3, 2020 our atmospheric CO2 level was carbon 426 ppm. Looking at the atmospheric carbon graph (CO2) just above and then the greenhouse gas graph with methane and nitrous oxide on it a bit further down this page, it becomes painfully evident that anyone who is telling you that we are making progress on fixing climate change and preventing escalating endless climate change catastrophes, either: 

1. does not know how to read an atmospheric carbon, methane, or nitrous oxide graph (all of which are getting worse at even faster rates) or

2. does not understand the complex climate change science, or its mathematics, and physics, or 

3. has financial interests incentivizing their actions to keep the global public ignorant of climate change's real danger and risk level. (Click here to see humanity's current uncensored actual climate change risk level.) or,

4. Is lying through their teeth for some other unknown reason.

The greenhouse gas graph below highlights today's painful story of all three major atmospheric greenhouse gases: carbon (CO2), methane (CH4), and Nitrous Oxide (N2O), which come from burning fossil fuel and its toxic pollution.

The greenhouse gas graph is from the United Nations IPCC summary report. The numbers at the bottom of the greenhouse gas illustration below are the historical AD dates.  

Notice how, from about 1950 to 1980, the rates of toxic and poisonous fossil fuel-caused greenhouse gases going into our atmosphere began to rise exponentially. 

After looking at the above two graphs showing the actual results of everything our politicians and governments have done to reduce global fossil fuel use over the last 4-6 decades, only someone in complete denial or delusional would still say we are making any global fossil fuel reduction progress, or that what we are currently doing to reduce fossil fuel use is working!

Our accelerating global heating threat is now so great that we have no other choice but to bypass the disinformed, compromised, or cowardly politicians who have failed to protect us. To protect the future of humanity, we must bypass and act directly using the three parts of the Climate Justice Now program.

A considerable part of the new Climate Justice Now program is to:

a. share the results and information from ALL of the climate change perpetrators' worldwide crimes on display in a completed online public trial found here.

b. do everything possible to support new worldwide lawsuits to help the victims of the perpetrators of climate change receive full financial restitution for the damages they have suffered as a consequence of climate change.

c. connect with and collaborate with all of the other organizations worldwide working for climate justice now on common projects and events.

What is the True Urgency of the Climate Justice Now Program?

There are two main reasons:

1. At this point, current climate science also strongly suggests that only a worldwide and rapidly scaling up the Climate Justice Now program has any realistic hope of preventing humanity from crossing the last-chance atmospheric carbon 450 ppm near-total extinction threshold.

If we cross the last chance carbon 450 ppm threshold and tipping point, we enter into the second phase of runaway global warming, and about half of humanity will perish by 2050. That tipping point threshold of carbon 450 ppm will come up in eight years (or considerably less if we keep adding more carbon annually at the current 2024 rate of almost six carbon ppm.)

Click here to learn why reaching carbon 450 PPM is our eventual mass human extinction.

(Click here for a deeper dive into the climate science on why the carbon 450 ppm threshold is humanity's climate change point of no return for the critical climate stability essential to human life.) 

2. Over the last 60 years, the world's many environmental groups have also totally failed with every strategy and tactic they have ever used to reduce or even slow the amount of toxic global warming accelerating greenhouse gases going into our atmosphere. Because of points 1 and 2, the urgency to find a truly effective way to fix climate change immediately (like the Climate Justice Now program could not be more real!

Click here to see those strategies that work too slowly for our current threat level.

Click here to see the strategies that will not work in time.

Why the Climate Justice Now program will work to lower greenhouse gases where many past environmental and climate programs have failed

There is an old and wise saying:

"The quickest way to solve a problem is to remove all profit from everyone who benefits from the problem. The problem will then "magically" begin to disappear." 

With every lawsuit filed and every lawsuit won, the fossil fuel industry has less profit and, therefore, less ability to continue to pollute the atmosphere and environment with its deadly toxic products. 

Our new Climate Justice Now program is critical because:

1. It exposes the actual perpetrators of climate change in many new ways and the climate change facts the perpetrators never want anyone to know. 

2. It allows the victims of climate change consequences to get financial restitution for their losses and damages from the perpetrators of climate change. 

3. It can rapidly take the profit out of the climate change perpetrator's wrongful actions and rapidly and significantly diminish the perpetrator's resources and ability to continue its toxic, polluting actions on all humanity and biological life.

With far fewer resources, the global fossil fuel cartel will not be able to explore new fossil fuel deposits, nor will it be able to extract those fossil fuels and add them to the marketplace. The remaining fossil fuel supplier's costs will rise so high that they must raise their prices far beyond where they are now, which will incentivize and speed the transition to green, nonpolluting energy sources. With enough successful lawsuits, it will become impossible for the global fossil fuel cartel to continue selling its toxic, polluting products.

When individuals, businesses, local communities, and state and national governments file their lawsuits for loss and damage (and in some areas of government criminal acts), we bypass the failures of our politicians and our slow-moving fossil fuel conflict-ridden legislatures. We put direct power and direct action directly into the hands of individuals, businesses, local communities, and state and national governments. This direct action strategy with powerful profit-removing consequences is our best chance to save humanity from crossing the last chance, carbon 450 ppm extinction accelerating tipping point.

Here are the audiences for the Climate Change Now program and its climate change victim financial restitution information

In this surge of worldwide litigation against the perpetrators of climate change, many different types of climate change victims are now suing the perpetrators of climate change:

a. home buyers (who were not accurately told how climate change could or would risk or damage their home purchase by real estate brokers or mortgage companies.)

b. farmers, farm cooperatives, and farmers’ associations. (Farmers are currently disproportionately suffering massive financial losses from crop failures and low crop yields due to escalating climate change-related consequences. Climate change-driven extreme weather events are defined, in part, as heatwaves, heat domes, droughts, wildfires, hurricanes, cyclones, tornados, floods, flooding, sea level rise, rain bombs, wind storms [Derechos], dust storms, wildfire smoke events, unseasonable cold spells, and other abnormal, unseasonal, or record-breaking weather related to rapidly accelerating climate change.)

c. business owners (who have suffered loss and damage because of the many primary and secondary consequences of climate change.)

d. investors who were not accurately told how escalating climate change could or would threaten or risk their investments. (Many investors have suffered losses in various traditional and non-traditional investment vehicles where the actual climate change risks contained within those investments were inadequately disclosed or significantly underestimated and where if a non-negligent, due diligence review had been done by those offering such investments, those investments would have had to reveal significantly higher possible to probable climate change consequences and climate loss-related risks.) 

e. local governments and local agencies. (Local taxpayers are being forced to pay for cartel-caused climate change damages that insurance company policies do not cover and they did not cause.)

f. state attorney generals and national government agencies. State and national taxpayers are getting stuck with the soaring costs of climate change consequences as more insurance companies cancel climate change-exposed insurance policies. (More state attorney generals and government agencies are filing litigation against the cartel to recover the financial losses and damages for their taxpayers.)

g. undeveloped nations who also have experienced vastly disproportional climate change loss and damage in relation to the total fossil fuel pollution they have produced or put in the atmosphere since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution about 1800 are now using the courts to recover their climate losses and damages instead of continuing to beg and wait for the “too little too late” help they were promised at international climate conferences.

h. companies involved in green energy generation or green energy products. The fossil fuel cartel had extensive programs to stop or reduce green energy subsidies or stop or slow laws that would have made the global transition to green energy far easier and faster. Had it not been for the global fossil fuel cartel's anti-green energy actions, the world would be decades ahead in the green energy transition, and our current climate change consequences would be far less. (See this online trial for more information.)

i. climate change activists around the world.

Here are the Climate Justice Now program's main parts

Part 1: is the online public trial of the perpetrators of climate change and their crimes. This online trial details decades of cartel toxic pollution, disinformation, and criminal actions. It succinctly explains why worldwide law firms, attorneys, and government authorities will eventually recover trillions of dollars in climate change loss and damage awards and settlements for their clients or countries.

Law firms, attorneys, and government authorities are currently using this online trial to quickly get their litigation teams up to speed on cartel litigation, crimes, and tort charge options. The many new disclosures in this online cartel public trial have unsettled and even surprised the most hardened and well-educated climate change activists. This page also includes support organizations for whistleblowers on cartel crimes.

Click here for Part 1, which is an online public trial of the perpetrators of climate change and their shocking crimes against humanity over the last 4-6 decades.

It is a must-read for even hardened climate change activists and researchers because it lays out the full spectrum of serious crimes committed by the perpetrators of climate change, many of which have never been seen before.

Part 2: Click here for the master list of evidence and documentation for the global fossil fuel cartel jury trial and for ongoing litigation against the global fossil fuel cartel. We just moved this page because it is expanding quickly.

Part 3: lists existing financial climate change damage restitution court cases against the perpetrators of climate change, lists law firms that can help you with litigation against the perpetrators of climate change damage, and provides powerful tips on filing a climate change damage restitution lawsuit for damage that you, your business, or your government have experienced. Click here for Part 3.

Part 4: Click here for a list of law firms that may be able to help the many worldwide victims of climate change. Simply because it directly and immediately starts removing all profit from cartel wrongdoing. Eventually and hopefully soon, successful court judgments and big damage awards against the global fossil fuel cartel, related companies, senior executives, and associated enablers may prove to become more effective in ending the climate change extinction emergency than previous public protests, the previous 27 international climate conferences, and current climate educational efforts.

Part 4: Click here for the most critical actions needed to stop the ongoing crimes of the global fossil fuel cartel from destroying humanity and achieve climate change justice.

Click Here to Vote if the Global Fossil fuel Cartel is Guilty of Causing Climate change and Financially Responsible for all Climate change Loss and Damage.

Volunteers Needed for Climate Justice Now

We are actively recruiting new volunteers worldwide to work specifically on promoting the Climate Justice Now program and its actions. Click here to become a volunteer in the Climate Justice Now program and help forward the justice actions described on this page and throughout the Climate Justice Now pages.

Are you a witness, or do you know of any witnesses to the global fossil fuel cartel's crimes?

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Please Note: We have just launched our Job One for Humanity Climate Justice Now program in January of 2024. More law firms, attorney generals, national litigation tams and evidence are being added regularly to the existing our existing resource lists as more anti-fossil fuel cartel organizations and allies continue to forward us new information.

Last updated 2.4.24.

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Here are Critical Climate Change-Related Topics Covered in the Members-Only Section

It includes:

What are the most critical climate change consequence timeframes I will need to know to plan a safe future for myself, my family, and my business? 

What are the safest locations around the world?

Our checklists for wise climate-resilient home and land purchases in safe locations.

What are the seven new climate change rules for real estate buying, selling, and investment in the age of accelerating climate change? 

What are the financial loss timeframes and percentages for the coming local, state, national, and global financial losses due to accelerating climate change consequences?

Special Member Only Briefings and Warning Alerts On Major Climate Change Events and News? Click here. 

How will Climate Change Create Stock Market Opportunities and Massive Future Market Losses and Instabilities? (What stocks will be the biggest winners and losers as climate change accelerates?)

How will Climate Change Cause Wild Fluctuations and Unpredictability in Future Commodity Prices? Click here. (What commodities will be the biggest winners and losers as climate change accelerates?)

The predictions for how climate change will affect political conflict or instability probabilities, particularly relating to a nation's regionalized specific global warming consequences. Learn how escalating climate change will steadily break down the strongest democracies, roll back existing human rights, and threaten worldwide political stability. 

How to get Full Financial Recovery From Climate Change Losses and damage? 

How do I get All of the Free Climate Change Related Ebooks available to all Members? Click here. 

What is the Climageddon Extinction Scenario and its Timetables for a Climate Change-Driven Global Collapse? Click here. 

And, there is much more in the section below!

Here are the climate change relocation, migration, and managed retreat-related topics in our members-only section

Hundreds of thousands of smart individuals are already relocating because of climate change. Here is the essential information you will need to do it without making serious location mistakes or wasting time and money.

It includes:

What is the most updated information about climate change migration, relocation, or managed retreat? 

How to Know Where and When to Migrate Because of Accelerating Global Warming and Climate Change? 

Before relocating, what must I know about climate change migration and relocation? 

What Climate Change Migration, Relocation, and Managed Retreat Evaluation Factors are the Most Important? 

What are the Climate Change Safer Zones Within the United States and Worldwide? 

Do you have a robust checklist for climate change safer, land and home purchasing, migration, relocation, or managed retreat? (This 6-page checklist will help keep you from making poor or inadequate land or home purchases that will not add to your climate safety and longevity.)

Why find, join, or create a ClimateSafe Village-like resilient eco-community to improve my long-term climate change "survive and thrive" possibilities significantly? Click here.

What are the worst migration challenges and difficult choices that I must face in a high-probability climate change-driven Great Global Collapse? Click here.

We continually update the members-only information as new climate change research arrives.

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Not everyone who comes to our website understands that almost all climate change information they have heard from the media and their governments is highly censored and significantly underestimated. For decades, the global fossil fuel cartel has spent billions of dollars on climate change disinformation to protect its 28 trillion dollar-a-year income.

This prior censorship experience means they can easily become shocked or upset when they read the uncensored, accurate climate change information found below for the first time. To protect individuals new to learning about the climate change emergency, we have created a rating system for every question you see below in our FAQ. 

At the end of every question in every topic section below, you will find the following ratings so that you will not be unpleasantly surprised or dive into materials that may be too difficult for you.

We rate each FAQ answer according to difficulty and emotional upset potential levels. The difficulty levels of B, I, or A are beginner, intermediate, or advanced, and the emotional upset levels of 1, 2, and 3 are low, medium, and high.

Our FAQ contains everything you want to know about climate change and its causes, consequences, and solutions. It contains the uncensored and unpoliticized answers to questions our climate change think tank has been repeatedly asked over the last 13 years. 

This FAQ contains serious and often upsetting adult climate change matters and is not for children under 16 without a parent or adult filtering which information is appropriate for the young person.

Climate Change FAQ Question Topics Found on this Page:

There are 16 climate change climate change-related topic sections (below.) Each section has numerous questions and answers.

To find what you are looking for quickly:

1. Find the topic area most like your question. Click the link for that topic section to take you to that topic in our FAQ.

2. Select your question from the list of questions found there.

Here are the topic sections in this FAQ:

Section 1: What is climate change (global warming)? How does climate change happen?

This section has 11 questions and answers.

Section 2: What are the primary and secondary consequences of climate change (global warming) occurring both today and over the following five decades?

This section has 6 questions and answers.

Section 3: How does your independent climate change think tank analyze and establish climate change risks, consequence timeframes, and solutions?

This section has 3 questions and answers.

Section 4: What is everything I need to know about the possibilities, probabilities, and timeframes of our currently escalating climate change causing mass to near-total human extinction by as soon as 2050-2070?

This section has 12 questions and answers.

Section 5: What do our governments need to do to save the future of humanity from mass extinction?

This section has 7 questions and answers.

Section 6: How do we get our politicians to act to get our governments to make the required 2025 global fossil fuel reductions? 

This section has 10 questions and answers.

Section 7: What can I do to protect myself and my family from both the worsening and now unavoidable climate change consequences and reduce climate change?

This section has 6 questions and answers.

Section 8: How can the Climatesafe Villages project help me have a safer climate future and be supported as I get ready for what is coming? 

This section has 13 questions and answers.

Section 9: What are the benefits of fixing the climate change emergency? (Our most read pages.)

This section has 4 questions and answers.

Section 10: Why have our governments failed to fix climate change for over sixty years?

This section has 10 questions and answers.

Section 11: What critical climate research and analysis is in the Members-Only Section of the Job One for Humanity Website?

This section has 20 questions and answers.

Section 12: How do I heal my climate change anger, sadness, anxiety, etc.?

This section has 3 questions and answers.

Section 13: What is Job One for Humanity climate change think tank? What is our research and analysis methodology? Who is our audience? What are our mission and goals? Who is our board and advisory board? 

This section has 14 questions and answers.

Section 14: How do I volunteer? What are your volunteer projects and positions?

This section has 4 questions and answers.

Section 15: How do I donate to your organization?

This section has 7 questions and answers.

Section 16: Miscellaneous information

This section has 6 questions and answers.

Section 1: What is climate change and global warming? How does it happen?

What are climate change and global warming, and how do they work? (B, 1)  Click here.

What are four essential things to know about climate change? (I, 2)

1. climate change is dangerous and deadly air pollution caused by humanity burning fossil fuels. (Continuing to burn additional fossil fuels creates an ever thicker blanket of carbon and other greenhouse gas pollution (methane and nitrous oxide) in our atmosphere, trapping ever-increasing levels of heat on Earth.) 

2. this fossil fuel burning air pollution then, directly or indirectly, causes record-breaking; heatwaves, heat domes, droughts, hurricanes, cyclones, tornados, floods and flooding, rain bombs, wind storms [Derechos], dust storms, wildfires, wildfire smoke events, unseasonable cold spells, and other abnormal and unseasonal weather.

3. some heat-increasing polluting greenhouse gases, like carbon, the largest one, remain in our atmosphere for centuries to thousands of years. This long-term persistence of carbon in our atmosphere means that the relatively stable weather you experienced when you were younger is now gone forever, or at least until all of the additional fossil fuel-burning carbon, which we have been polluting our atmosphere with since the beginning of the industrial revolution has been removed (hundreds to thousands of years from now.) 

4. not only is the relative stability of the climate of your younger memories gone forever, every day, as humanity burns more fossil fuels (which adds even more greenhouse gas pollution to our atmosphere,) we will continue to break new records and make today's existing climate change problems and weather significantly worse in our own future and for the future four children and future generations. 

What are today's ten most important climate change facts and consequences I should know that will most change and affect my life? (I, 2) Click here. (This ten-facts summary is updated weekly as new climate research comes in. This is also one of the three most-read pages on our website.)

How do I know that climate change causes extreme weather and record-breaking weather? (B, 2) Click here.

What is most misunderstood about climate change? (I, 2) Click here.

Will geo-engineering, carbon capture, or other "new technologies" work in time to save us from the climate change emergency? 

What do you mean when you say that climate change and global warming could become or is irreversible? (B, 2)

Irreversible climate change means that we will not be able to get the dangerous levels of excess greenhouse gases (like carbon) out of our atmosphere and back down to a normal and human-safe pre-industrial level for hundreds to thousands of years. (As of July 2023, We are currently at the insane atmospheric carbon level of 420 ppm. We will soon enter the generally considered irreversible and second phase of runaway global heating sometime between 2025-2031. This is when we enter into the carbon 425-450 ppm range.)

It will take nature centuries to thousands of years to remove the carbon from our atmosphere with its natural processes. So when you hear the word irreversible, think of centuries to thousands of years the atmosphere that supported humanity's flourishing can return back to normal.

What are the five decision-action options for dealing with climate change that everyone will eventually consciously or unconsciously choose? (B,1)  Click here.

What is the difference between prioritized, effective critical path climate change action that meets key humanity extinction prevention deadlines and simple climate change progress? (B, 2)

You will hear lots of people and environmental claim we are making climate progress, but that progress is not necessarily what is critically needed to meet extinction-preventing climate change deadlines.

Many things are being done by climate and environmental groups worldwide that can and should be honored as climate change and runaway global heating progress. Unfortunately, we have so little time left to save ourselves from the extinction of the surviving post-2050 half of humanity; we must now focus only on those prioritized, truly effective critical path climate actions that will successfully achieve crucial extinction-prevention deadlines and save, at least, that part of humanity. Unfortunately, these effective prioritized, critical path climate actions are also the most difficult.

To create a climate change critical path action plan, one must first know the most critical deadline and the point where climate change and runaway global heating actually go beyond our control for centuries to millennia. Unfortunately, many climate activists and environmental organizations do not honestly know where this critical climate change survival deadline is! 

Consequently, they develop climate change action programs that do not fit the true urgency of our emergency. Many climate and environmental groups are merely rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic instead of simply steering away from the looming iceberg. They do not have their climate change humanity-saving priorities right.

Fortunately, this critical climate change deadline is known and available here, so they can quickly correct this once attention is called to this additional critical 10-fact information.

If climate and environmental education and action organizations do not shift their mission tactics away from the many feel-good, off-critical path actions that produce minor climate progress, we cannot save the surviving half of humanity post-2050, and humanity is in deep trouble. 

Therefore, if you see any climate and environmental organizations focusing on many feel-good, off-critical path climate progress minor steps designed (often to keep members motivated and donating), it is necessary to disrupt them and these activities.

With these climate and environmental organizations, start with our climate educational tactics first! Let them see the correct climate extinction deadline we must work toward. Then, many will change strategies once they see their minor climate progress actions in the light of "all hands on deck" for the rapidly approaching runaway global heating extinction and points of no return. Many will also begin to work on critical path actions like those found in Part Four and Part Three of the Job One Climate and Runaway Global Heating Solutions and Resilience Plan. 

We do not have the luxury with so little time remaining (2025-2031) to soothe ourselves with bits and pieces of "feel good" off-deadline, off-critical path minor, and deck chair rearranging climate progress. Instead, we must be entirely focused on the effective remaining prioritized critical path actions that can and will save about half of humanity from extinction by 2050 and before it is too late!

That being said, it is balanced and wise to know that ongoing individual actions in reducing fossil fuel use are also essential to save as much of humanity as possible. In many areas of our website, we have emphasized our government's critical first and primary role as being the most effective and necessary tool to enforce the required 2025 global fossil fuel reductions. While that is a true priority to save half of humanity post-2050, there is also an essential role for the ongoing growing individual-driven fossil fuel reductions that are off the critical path that you do see many environmental organizations promoting.

While individual fossil fuel reductions by hundreds of millions of us are presently too little and too late to save about half of humanity before about 2050, they can still and hopefully will play an important role in what remaining percentage of humanity survives post-2050. After humanity has hit the climate change catastrophe "rock bottom" described here, the net result of our steadily accumulating individual fossil fuel reduction actions could make just enough difference so that as much as 30% of humanity will survive after 2050. If individual fossil fuel reduction actions do not continue to grow and grow significantly, as few as five percent or less of humanity may survive until about 2070. These numbers illuminate the important role of individual actions in reducing fossil fuel use for our post-2050 future.

What are the best climate change videos and books on climate change? (B, 1) Click here.

Do You have a climate change glossary for key terms? (B,1)  Click here.

Why is Job One so open about the painful climate facts of 1/2 of humanity perishing by about 2050?

1. We see it as a painful near-certainty as we look at climate research and our lack of adequately responding to it.

2. Progressive, non-climate deniers around the world and undeveloped nation citizens need to understand the actual intensity of the threat and consequences they face so that they may begin their emergency preparation adaptations or migrations while they still have a chance or their chances are good that they can get these things accomplished before they will be challenging to complete.

3. Well, we know these things produce fear. There are two ways to deal with fear. The evolutionary highest purpose of fear is to mobilize the individual or group for remedial action.

That is what we hope that the legitimate fear generated by the reality of our current climate change double dilemma and pending global holocaust will do with those who respond to fear in proactive ways.

Those who respond to the climate nightmare proactively may be the only ones who will survive, or at least their descendants will survive because that evolutionary fear powerfully motivates them to adapt.

Section 2: What are the primary and secondary consequences of climate change occurring both today and over the next three to five decades?

Is there a comprehensive list of climate change's primary and secondary consequences and a general sequence for how these climate change consequences might occur? (B,2) Click here.

What are the ten most important current climate change facts and consequences I should know that will most change and affect my life? (I, 2) Click here.

What are the climate change consequence predictions for 2023? (B, 2) Click Here.

Do you have short descriptions for each of the main climate change consequences? (B,1) Click here.

What are the worst consequences of climate change? (I, 3) Click here.

How will the many worsening climate change consequences affect my daily life and normal routines?  (B, 2)

The many consequences of climate change will not unfold steadily. In general, climate change consequences usually develop in cyclical sporadic surges. These erratic but cyclical climate change consequence surges will continue to increase in severity, frequency, and scale, often reaching new record levels. 

After reaching new record levels, the climate change consequence will quickly fall back to near-normal or even below-normal levels. After the consequence falls from record levels, it most likely will move into a plateau level (either below or above the previous normal level) before beginning another cycle of increased severity, frequency, and scale, often reaching another new record level and then, once again, falling back down quickly to near-normal levels.

This three-phased cyclical steep up, quick down, and back to the near previous normal pattern will prevent many individuals from seeing climate change's long-term patterns and trends. This climate consequence pattern ignorance will make individuals and businesses vulnerable to the next sporadic intensifying cycle of climate change-driven catastrophes. 

In part, the most common climate change-driven extreme weather consequences are defined as heatwaves, heat domes, droughts, wildfires, hurricanes, cyclones, tornados, floods and flooding, rain bombs, wind storms [Derechos], dust storms, wildfire smoke events, unseasonable cold spells, and other abnormal unseasonal weather. But those are only a few of the many climate change consequences we will soon be experiencing at intensifying levels. 

If you begin to think about climate change consequences occurring in the pattern of more frequent, more severe, and larger-scaled sporadic "waves" that eventually affect and break down the normal patterns of our lives, you would have a good idea about how climate change consequences will unfold this year and over the following decades. Do not panic or worry if a climate change consequence spikes to a new record, like soaring land or sea temperatures for a week, a month, or even a season. It will eventually drop to near its normal range, but that is only a tiny part of the climate consequence problem. 

The real problem, which is invisible to most people, will be that almost all climate change consequences will continue to sporadically increase in severity, frequency, and scale season-by-season, year-by-year, and decade-by-decade:

1. From now until 2025, on average, most climate change consequences will increase in intensity at a significantly accelerated rate.

2. From 2025-2031, on average, the intensity of most climate change consequences will increase dramatically. There will be a dramatic increase in serious global climate catastrophes.

3. From 2031-2050, on average, the intensity of many of the worst climate change consequences will increase near-exponentially. Many serious global climate catastrophes will occur regularly, making it very difficult to stay up with all the waves of damage and losses.

The good news is that by understanding how climate change will unfold in sporadic intensifying waves over the following decades, you will have time to prepare, adapt, and hopefully help change the dangerous direction of the world's accelerating climate change consequences.

Use the above graphic to imagine how climate change consequences will unfold. The green bars represent how new records will be broken over time (left to right). The blue bars represent how after each new broken climate change consequence record, that consequence will drop back steeply and quickly to plateau at near-normal levels and stay that way for a while. But unfortunately, even the normal plateau levels of many consequences will also continue to increase gradually over time.

Can climate change consequences worldwide suddenly get far worse than they are now? (B,2)

The only very scary thing that can change the above-described cyclical, more gradual climate change consequence escalation pattern is humanity crossing major climate tipping points or major climate feedback loops, as we are doing now. Crossing these two things separately or together will cause global climate change consequences to accelerate dramatically and then exponentially.

Please see the graph below to understand what we mean by saying that almost all climate change consequences will first rise dramatically and then exponentially after crossing tipping points. This illustration shows not only the gross failure of your governments to regulate and protect you from the accelerating consequences of climate change caused by burning more and more fossil fuel, but it also illustrates how the acceleration of climate change consequences after tipping points are crossed will directly follow and parallel the steep rise of the three major greenhouse gases polluting our atmosphere.

The graph below shows the three major fossil fuel-related greenhouse gases, carbon (CO2), methane (CH4), and Nitrous Oxide (N2O). The numbers at the bottom of the illustration are dates in history AD.  PPB is parts per billion. PPM is parts per million. (The IPCC is the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. AR6 is the IPCC's climate summary report. NOAA is the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.) As you can see below, we are walking into a very dangerous climate change consequence future.

What do you mean when you say that climate change and Global warming could soon be rising exponentially?

Something important to remember is that as we cross more and more global warming tipping points, the more global warming consequences will increase faster and faster. They will not grow gradually and linearly. They will grow exponentially over time. (In the graph below, the red line is an example of a linear gradual growth trajectory.  (Linear progression equals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, etc.)

The green line is an example of an exponential growth curve and trajectory. (Exponential progression equals 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 264, etc.)

An exponential growth of global warming consequences after we cross the four extinction level tipping points also means that few people or governments will be able to stay up with managing the damages from these escalating consequences for very long. It also means that unless you have made emergency preparations and adaptations and/or have migrated (where necessary) well before these four extinction-level tipping points are crossed, you will probably not have the time to do so later as things get worse faster and faster.

This is because the social, economic, and political systems will become more and more unstable and chaotic faster and faster as crossing more global warming tipping points pushes us into a steeper and steeper exponential curve (the green line above) of climate change consequences increasing severity, frequency, and scale. This means that if you have not prepared well in advance for what is coming, you will find yourself in a living hell!

It would also help to see future exponentially increasing climate change consequences in their proper time frames. Right now, climate change consequences are rising in a steady but steepening linear-like line (the red line above.) From about 2025 to about 2031, climate change consequences will get dramatically worse and dramatically increase the slope of the red line example.

From about 2030 to 2040, you will see the beginnings of the green line exponential growth in our climate change consequences. From about 2050 to 2070, climate change consequences will be nearing the steepest exponential level of the green lines rising curve.

Section 3: How does the Job One for Humanity think tank analyze and establish climate change risks, consequence timeframes, and solutions?

What climate change research do you use in your evaluations and predictions? (I, 1) Click here.

What methodologies do you use in your climate change analysis? (A, 1) Click here.

What are your organization's most current recommendations for what I should do about worsening climate change? (B, 2)  Click Here.

Section 4: What do I need to know about the possibilities, probabilities, and timeframes of our current escalating climate change emergency causing mass to near-total human extinction by as soon as 2050-2070?

(Please note: The following worse-case climate change scenarios will occur only if our governments continue to fail to reduce global fossil fuel to get close to the required 2025 targets. Please read most of the links in this section to get a balanced and comprehensive understanding of climate change and other factors pushing humanity toward extinction.)

What are climate change's four worst extinction-accelerating tipping points we must not cross? (I-A, 3) Click here.

Why do we have only until about 2025 to fix the climate change emergency and prevent a climate change consequence-driven extinction of the first half of humanity by about 2050? (I-A, 3) Click here.

Why will about half of the world's population still perish, even if we immediately cut global fossil fuel radically and get close to the 2025 targets? (I-A, 3) Click here for the explanation and the only thing left we can do to save the other half of humanity post-2050.

What is Garret's Climate Change Dilemma? (I-A, 3)

What are the primary and secondary climate change-related consequences that will near certainly bring about humanity's near-total extinction by 2050-2070 unless we get close to the required 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets? (I-A, 3) Click here.

What would the sequence of climate change-driven events look like if we fail to reverse climate change soon and suffer the near-total extinction of humanity by 2050-2070? (I-A, 3) Click here. 

Why is the total extinction of humanity driven by climate change-related consequences NOT probable? (I, 2) Click here for this excellent news.

How important is watching for news updates on the rapidly worsening condition of the Thwaites doomsday glacier? (I, 3) Click here.

How and when do the 11 major climate change tipping points occur? (I-A, 3) Click here For everything you need to know about these 11 climate change tipping points.

Why is a climate change-driven extinction of about half of humanity real and probable by 2050? (I-A, 3) Click here.

Are individual adaptation actions like reducing fossil fuel use essential to save as much of humanity as possible? (I, 2)

It is imperative to know that your ongoing individual adaptation actions in reducing your fossil fuel use are essential to save as much of humanity as possible. In many areas of our website, we have emphasized our government's critical first and primary role as being the most effective and required tool to enforce the 2025 global fossil fuel reductions. While that is a proper priority essential for saving half of humanity by 2050, there is also an essential role for the ongoing growing individual-driven fossil fuel reductions that are not part of our government's critical climate action path, which you see many environmental organizations promoting.

While individual fossil fuel reductions by hundreds of millions of us are presently too little and too late to save about half of humanity before about 2050, there are still two powerful reasons to start reducing your personal or business fossil fuel use and completing the other adaptation actions described below:

a. They will help determine what remaining percentage of humanity survives after 2050. After humanity has hit the climate change catastrophe "rock bottom" described here, the total net result of our steadily accumulating individual fossil fuel reduction actions could make the difference of as much as 30% of humanity surviving after 2050. If individual fossil fuel reduction actions do not continue to grow and grow significantly, as few as five percent or less of humanity may survive until about 2070. 

b. They will keep you living longer and far more comfortably as you move to low or non-fossil fuel systems as you complete the many other adaptation actions on this page. Also, the adaptation actions on this page will directly help you manage food supplies and other needed resources as resource scarcity increases as climate change worsens.

The above survival percentages underscore just how important your role in individual fossil fuel reduction is to the future. (If you are wondering why only thirty percent to as little as one or two percent of the population survives post-2050, and you are brave, click here and read about the nightmare we enter if we fail to get close to the 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets. (Click here to see the needed individual fossil fuel use reduction actions.)

How much of humanity will perish and be left after mid-century? (I-A, 3) Click here.

Section 5: What do our governments need to do immediately to save the future of humanity from mass extinction?

What are the required government actions to reduce climate change that must be done immediately to save humanity from the climate change extinction nightmare? (B, 1) Click Here.

What are the correct global fossil fuel reduction targets we must come close to by 2025? (I, 2) Click here.

Why are all of the net-zero pledges by 2030, 2040, 2050, etc., you hear in the news media or from our governments, near useless or dead wrong? (B, 2) Click here.

What is the probability that our governments will continue to fail as they have done for 60 years and not reduce global fossil fuel use in time to save anything but the smallest part of humanity? (I, 3) Click here.

When will the world's governments finally act to honestly fix the climate change emergency? Will it be too late to avoid near-total extinction? (I, 3) Click here.

What are the government-level emergency backup actions our governments must now also take? (B, 3) Click here.

What is Garret's Climate Change Dilemma, and why are nearly all politicians, governments, and even environmental groups ignorant of it or intentionally hiding it from you? (I, 3) 

Section 6: How do we get our politicians to act to get our governments to make the required 2025 global fossil fuel reductions? 

How do we get our politicians to get our governments to act immediately on the climate change emergency? (B, 1) Click here.

Why is intense climate activism now Critical? (B, 1)  Click here.

Do you have a handout to give to people, particularly politicians? (B, 1) Click here. 

Do you have a concise climate change elevator pitch to get people thinking? (B, 2) Click here.

Do you have a program to get the world's billionaires to influence politicians to radically reduce global fossil fuel use? (B, 1) Click here.

Do you have climate change political petitions I can sign? (B, 1) Click here.

What climate change remedial strategies won't work in time? (B, 2) Click here. 

What climate change corrective strategies are too slow or have failed in the past? (B, 1) Click here.

What are the advanced actions for climate change activists? (A, 2) Click here. 

Do you have policies or guidelines for political protests on the climate change issue? (B, 1) Click Here.

Section 7: How can I protect myself and my family from the worsening and unavoidable climate change consequences and reduce climate change?

What are the climate change emergency preparations everyone should be doing? (B, 2) Click here. (These actions will help you protect yourself from what humanity can no longer avoid.) 

What are the critical climate change adaptations everyone should be doing? (B, 1)  Click here. (These actions will help you reduce your fossil fuel use.)

How do I join a supportive group of like-minded individuals preparing and adapting to climate change in my local area? (B, 1) Click here.

What is the best way that I can reduce climate change as an individual? The answer to this is simple, but it does take a bit to explain the best way for you as an individual to do this. (B, 1)

As a non-profit educational climate think tank, we provide unpoliticized, uncensored, and accurate climate research information and analysis. We are not information marketing people, in-the-street climate protestors, activists, or for-profit business managers. We are climate researchers, analysts, and educators only. 

Our limited climate research and analysis role means that ALL website visitors, members, and volunteers must individually share the climate information and analysis on our website for us! Furthermore, individual word-of-mouth sharing is the best way to spread uncensored climate change information most effectively in current conditions. 

If you do not share our uncensored climate change information one-on-one and by word-of-mouth, it will not reach enough people to make a difference before it is too late! This personal word of mouth one on one sharing is critical because the global fossil fuel cartel has successfully manipulated and distorted the climate news you hear in the media and from your governments. Few will know the climate truth if we do not bypass the massive fossil fuel cartel-generated disinformation campaigns by going old-school, low-technology, and using the incredibly effective one on one word-of-mouth strategy. 

There is no way the global fossil fuel cartel has the tools to keep you from speaking to others about the uncensored climate change truth. And, in a way, when you do this, you will be single-handedly defeating the mighty global fossil fuel cartel and their billions spent on climate disinformation. (If you are wondering why we are singling out the global fossil fuel cartel for their destructive actions creating and continuing the climate change nightmare, click here.)

Actively and aggressively share and spread the uncensored climate information and analysis found on our website and, where appropriate, become climate activists helping us to create honest climate solutions. 

We cannot fix the runaway global heating emergency in time to save humanity without lots of intelligent and motivated volunteer climate activists helping us to educate the world. You and your talents are more critical than ever to the future survival of humanity!

Humanity will not survive the climate emergency without everyone who understands the real climate threat and emergency doing their educational part!

Here are tips on what to talk about one on one:

1. Use our short "elevator pitch." An elevator pitch is a Silicon Valley-originated term. It is a short 2-3 minute statement about what is essential about something you should be involved in. It can be delivered in about the same time it would take for you to share an elevator with someone in a tall building, hence the elevator pitch. It is designed to capture attention with a critical mystery so the person will eventually want to know more.

You can contact others using our quick and simple climate change "elevator pitch" found in blue. Start short 2-3 minute conversations with friends, neighbors, work associates, and strangers. This elevator pitch lets them know how severe and serious the current climate emergency is.

2. Continue one on one word-of-mouth conversations with friends, neighbors, work associates, and strangers and let them know the many wondrous benefits of fixing climate change that they, the society, and the world will receive when we control the global climate change emergency. If you have not done so already, click here to read about the many benefits of global heating and climate change. This benefits page is the most read page of our website, with over 2 million visits.

Here are some tips on who you should contact first:

a. Individuals of above-average intelligence who already know the climate change emergency is real.

b. Individuals who may have already been adversely affected financially or otherwise by accelerating climate change consequences. (Here are the kinds of issues that are now painfully real to them because of losses of time or resources; heatwaves, heat domes, droughts, wildfires, hurricanes, cyclones, tornados, floods and flooding, rain bombs, wind storms [Derechos], dust storms, wildfire smoke events, unseasonable cold spells, and other abnormal unseasonal weather.

c. Prudent, mentally strong, and mature individuals you know who intentionally and consciously plan their future over the next one to five years or longer. These are the same kind of individuals who buy insurance, create college funds for their children while their children are young, and take reasonable precautions in their daily activities. These prudent individuals will take the time to read about a serious potential threat that could significantly disrupt their lives and children's futures.

d. Individuals you know whose lives already seem stable, running well, and not being battered by one personal or business disaster after another.

e. Progressive-leaning preppers. They are survivalists who are already preparing themselves, their families, and their businesses for the hard times ahead.

Here are some tips on who you should NOT contact for success:

Do not waste your valuable time and efforts trying to educate or convince the following types of individuals:

a. climate deniers, climate trolls, and individuals without open minds. (Those continually denying the truth of escalating climate change consequences will eventually meet their best and most reliable teacher. This teacher will not be you but the ultimate, certain, and unyielding disciplinarian of Reality itself. Reality always exacts its painful and costly consequences upon those who continue to ignore its feedback, laws, and lessons.)

b. those who do not or will not invest the time to carefully read the science or have the time to think deeply about what they have read.

c. those whose lives are in constant chaos and who are too distracted to do anything but cope with the endless problems that they face daily. They have no undistracted time and energy to deal with something so large and upsetting.

d. those who are mentally unstable or highly anxious and stressed out. The uncensored truth about our climate change emergency is so upsetting that these individuals should be bypassed at this time because it would make their lives that much more difficult knowing what is on our website when they are completely emotionally or psychologically unequipped to deal with it.

d. those with a hidden (or transparent) vested financial interest in the profits of the fossil fuel industry or fossil fuel economy. Never waste time on anyone whose job depends upon or profits from the fossil fuel industry continuing as it is. Mark Twain, the famous US humorist, says this far better than we do. "It's hard to teach a person something whose job depends upon not knowing it."

e. Do not give this information to children and young teens under 16 without an adult or parent modifying it so they can still be children, have a happy future, and not fear adult matters they can do little to fix. Climate change is a serious and often upsetting adult problem; please keep it that way.

f. those who do not have the intellectual sharpness to grasp even the easier ideas of the vast complexity of the climate system and its subsystems. (The average IQ of individuals in the world today is 100.) Unfortunately, understanding the complex and multifaceted science of the climate change emergency is significantly beyond those with 100 IQs or lower. Understanding the climate emergency's true threat level requires above-average intelligence.

Do you have any advice or restrictions for sharing your materials with minors, both under 13 and from 13 -16 years old?

Our educational materials are not meant for any adolescents under 13 years old because of their severe and adult nature. Please allow children under 13 to be children, and do not force them to deal with such an upsetting adult matter they have virtually no power to change. 

If your audience is 13-16 years old, do not focus on the consequences of the worst effects of the coming climate change. Let them have a happier and more carefree life that all younger individuals should enjoy. Be responsible in your educational efforts. There have been suicides by young people who heard the worst news about climate change, felt hopeless, and took their own lives. 

With children 13-16, always focus on hope, and we still have time to work together, prepare, and fix climate change. Be sure to also focus on the many benefits humanity will experience on this page as we progress in resolving the climate change nightmare.

Do You have an overview of all your climate change solutions? (B, 1) Click here.

Section 8: What are the new ClimateSafe Villages? How can they help me have a prepared, healthier, and safer climate future and be supported as I get ready for what is coming? 

Introduction, What is the Overview, and Goals of ClimateSafe Villages. (B, 2)

Climate Safe Village Qualities, Processes, Income Sources, and Safeguards. (B, 1)

The Four ClimateSafe Village Models and Their Operations. (B, 1)

Our New Personal Democracy ClimateSafer Village Management Mode. (B, 2)l

About Universe One, a Unique Rural ClimateSafe Village (I, 2)

Our The Universe One ClimateSafe Village Application Process. (I, 2)

The ClimateSafe Villages Social Contract Page. (I, 1)

Online Rules for Our Virtual ClimateSafe Village. (B, 1)

What kind of individuals do best in the ClimateSafe Village models?

ClimateSafe Villages is about cooperative people who create solutions in difficult situations. They are also reciprocators. They do not come only or primarily to take, receive, or be helped. They come to give and share knowledge, experience, and skills. They come to assist others while assisting themselves and being assisted.

Without finding and focusing on individuals with reciprocating natures, building the worldwide ClimateSafe Villages would be impossible to create before climate change consequences make things too unstable. If you are a natural reciprocator with a collaborative and cooperative nature, you will love Climatesafe villages and feel at home with others of a similar nature.

Who Owns ClimateSafe Villages?

ClimateSafe Villages is a nonprofit organization. It has no stock and is not owned by any member or executive of the organization. ClimateSafe Villages is also not the project of any single individual or group. A single individual or group could never achieve it. 

It is an open-source vision and project that is the goal and the creation of every prudent individual who protects themselves, their families, their communities, our unique and critical biological systems, our world, and the best of our diverse cultures and civilization. Everyone who does show up is helping to protect themselves and our future from the climate change emergency and the worsening of most of the world's other 11 serious global crises. 

ClimateSafe Villarge is not "our" project or someone else's project. It is your project if you see its merits and choose to join with others of similar mind and spirit. 

Procedures and Policies for Exiting Our ClimateSafe Villages or Applying for Membership. (B, 1) 

Personal Democracy White Paper. (A, 1)

How do I signup for more ClimateSafe Villages Information? (B, 1) Click here.

Do you have a separate FAQ for only ClimateSafe Villages questions? Click here. (B, 1)

Section 9: What are the many benefits of fixing the climate change emergency? (Our most read pages.)

What are the benefits of fixing the climate change emergency? Click here. (B, 1)

What are the big evolutionary benefits of fixing the climate change emergency? (B, 1) Click here. 

What are the biggest challenges to the possibility of a Great Global Rebirth once the climate change emergency is resolved? (I, 2) Click here.

Are there any “dark” benefits if we do not fix the climate change emergency? (I-3) Click here.

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Section 10: Why have our governments failed to fix climate change for over sixty years?

How has the unquenchable profit greed of the global fossil fuel cartel been directly and dominantly responsible for our governments' (and politicians' complete failure to act to protect the future of humanity from the climate change emergency? (B, 1) Click here.

Why have our governments failed for over 60 years to fix climate change so it does not create global catastrophe? (I, 2) Click here.

Has the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC) been compromised by the global fossil fuel cartel influencing its summary reports to underestimate and censor critical climate consequence severity and time frames? (The IPCC has been previously considered the world's leading authority on climate change.) (I, 2) Click here.

Has the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change grossly skewed and "cooked" the carbon reduction calculations with 2050 carbon capture calculations that are completely unproven and should've never been used? (I, 2) Click here.

Has the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change grossly underestimated climate change consequences and time frames by using "Perfect Day" computer modeling? (I, 2) Click here.

Has the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change continuously underestimated the climate sensitivity calculation constants used in almost all critical climate change predictions and solutions? (A-2) Click here.

Has the global fossil fuel cartel engaged in disinformation and misinformation programs and well-financed political influence campaigns to keep the real facts about the climate change emergency from the world citizens trying to protect its profits? (B, 1)  Click here. 

What are the deeper causes behind the climate change emergency? (A, 2) Click here.

Why is the global fossil cartel so terrified that you will learn about Garret's Climate Change Dilemma and their dominant role in causing our government 60 years of delays in resolving the escalating climate change emergency? (I, 2) Click here.

Section 11: What critical climate change research and analysis is in the Members-Only Section of the Job One for Humanity Website?

Please note: Only members can see what is in this section.

How can I become a Job One for Humanity member, and what benefits will I receive? (B, 1) Click here.

What are the most critical climate change consequence timeframes I will need to know to plan a safe future? (B, 2) Click here.

Do You have climate change migration, relocation, or managed retreat information? (B, 1) Click here.

What are the Recommended SAFER Climate Change Relocation Areas Within the US and the World? (B, 1) Click here.

How to Know Where and When to Migrate Because of Global Warming and Climate Change? (B, 1) Click here.

What do I need to know about climate change migration and relocation? (B, 1) Click here.

What are the Climate Change Migration, Relocation, and Managed Retreat Evaluation Factors? (B, 2) Click here.

What are the Recommended Climate Change Safer Zones Within the United States and Worldwide? (B, 1) Click here.

Do you have a checklist for climate change-safer land, and home purchasing, for migration, relocation, or managed retreat? (I, 1) Click here.

Should I find, join, or create a ClimateSafe Village and eco-community to improve my climate change survive and thrive possibilities? (B, 1) Click here.

Are there other migration challenges and difficult choices I must face in a high-probability climate change-driven Great Global Collapse? (I, 3) Click here.

What are the seven new rules for successful real estate buying, selling, and investment in the age of accelerating climate change? (B, 1) Click here.

What are the coming catastrophic global financial losses of our climate change future? (B, 1) Click here.

Will Climate Change Create Stock Market Opportunities and Massive Future Market Instability? (B, 1) Click here.  

Will Climate Change Cause Wild Fluctuations and Unpredictability in Future Commodity Prices? (B, 1) Click here.

Will escalating climate change break down democracies and worldwide political stability? (B, 1) Click here.

What are the Basics for How to Recover From Climate Change Related Disasters? (B, 1) Click here.

How do I get All the Free Climate Related Ebooks available to all Members? (B, 1) Click here. 

What is the Climageddon Extinction Scenario and the Timetables of a Climate Change-Driven Global Collapse? (A, 3) Click here. 

Do you have Special Member Only Briefings On Climate Change? (B, 1) Click here. 

Why is everything free and open source on your website except the member's section?

Even though our organization is all volunteer with no paid staff and has been that way for years, we still have to pay rent for our offices, Internet charges, phone, and everyday business expenses that any business would incur. Sometimes we have to hire specialty consultants with the knowledge that no volunteer in our team has. For example, when we have to fend off hacking attempts for certain upgrades on our website, we have to hire a server security specialist.

Additionally, the information in the members-only section is information we had to spend a lot of money to obtain. It is extremely valuable migration and financial information that a standard risk assessment firm would charge businesses thousands of dollars a year to access.

We do not do that. We have a reasonable tax-deductible donation level to become a member. We even have a scholarship program for those individuals worldwide who live at the poverty level and cannot donate.

And finally, we want to serve and collaborate with reciprocal and mature individuals who know they need to support the community helping them and others. When you donate to our nonprofit organization, you also tell us that you appreciate and value what we're doing and want to help us get our uncensored and valuable climate change-related information to as many people as possible.

Section 12: How do I heal my climate change anger, sadness, anxiety, etc.?

How do I heal any climate change, anger, anxiety, or upset I feel? (B, 1)  Click here.

What are the big evolutionary benefits of fixing the climate change emergency? (B, 1) Click here. 

What are the best disaster recovery actions for climate change disasters? (B, 1) Click here.

Section 13: What is the Job One for Humanity climate change think tank? How do we do our research and analysis? Who is our audience? What are our mission and goals? Who is our board and advisory board, etc?

What is the nonprofit Job One for Humanity climate change think tank organization, and what do you do? (B, 1) Click here.

Who are your main audiences and members? (B, 1) Click here.

What are the goals of your organization? (B, 1) Click here.

Who is the management team at Job One? (B, 1) Click here.

Who is the advisory board at Job One? (B, 1) Click here.

What are your online and offline rules? (B, 1) Click here.

What are your policies on anyone posting anything on your website in comments, blogs, articles, etc? (B, 1) Click here.

What is your privacy policy? (B, 1) Click here.

What are your website's Terms of Use? (B, 1) Click Here.

What is your copyright policy? (B, 1) Click here.

What is your trademark policy? (B, 1) Click here.

Does your organization do climate change risk consulting? (B, 1) Click here.

Do you have alliances with other organizations? (B, 1) Click here.

Section 14: How do I volunteer? What are your volunteer projects and positions?

How do I start the process of volunteering? (B, 1) Click here.

What are the projects that volunteers work on? (B, 1) Click here.

What administration positions are open for volunteers? (B, 1) Click here.

Do you have a training guide for volunteers? (B, 1) Click here.

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Section 15: How do I donate to your organization?

How do I make a secure one-time donation? (B, 1) Click here.

How do I make a monthly donation? (B, 1) Click here.

What are your membership benefits? (B, 1) Click here.

How do I donate by mail? (B, 1) Click here.

What were your accomplishments in 2022? (B, 1) Click here.

How do I do bequests etc.? Email us at [email protected] for more information.

Are you tax deductible? Yes, we have been since 1993.

Section 16: Miscellaneous Information

What are your organization's most current recommendations for what I should do about worsening climate change? (B, 1) Click Here.

How do I get your free climate change alerts and updates? (B, 1) Click here.

Do you have a Climate Change Blog? (B, 1) Click here.

How do I build a local climate change alliance group? (B, 1) Click here.

If you want to see everything we have on our website on a single topic, click this Search link and enter your keywords.

How to contact us if you have additional questions? Email us at [email protected] 

If you do not see an answer to your climate change or global warming question in our FAQ, email your query to ([email protected]). Put Climate Change Question in the subject line.

Here is Job One other information you requested that will be helpful.

Last updated 3.29.23 

Welcome to the original CSV master model and FAQ for everything you ever would want to know about ClimateSafe Villages (CSV), the climate-resilient eco-communities of the future. Of course, the ongoing discussion forums at CSV will continue to add to the factors found in our 6-page CSV master model. 

Welcome to the frequently asked questions (FAQ) for all four models of the ClimateSafe Villages (CSV). (If you have any questions about climate change, click this climate change FAQ link for those kinds of answers.)

For general questions about ClimateSafe Villages, click here to the guide table of contents page for all topic sections in our online 6-page ClimateSafe Village Overview Guide. It will lead you to the answers to many questions not covered in the additional ClimateSave Villages FAQ below.

Our ClimateSafe Villages (CSV) Questions and Answers FAQ

This is Job One for Humanity Master FAQ. It has several sections. Click the section link which has the type of answers you seek.

Section 1: Answers all your questions about climate change and global warming. Click here for Our Climate Change FAQ.

Section 2. Answers all of your questions about our four models of ClimateSafe Villages. Click Here for our ClimateSafe Villages FAQ.

Job One for Humanity, founded in 2008, is a non-profit, 100% publicly funded, independent climate change think tank that provides a holistic "big picture" climate overview and uncensored dialectical meta-systemic analysis of the inter-connected and inter-dependent climate systems and sub-systems creating our current climate change and runaway global heating emergency. 

Our organization supplies research-grounded climate change consequence analysis, timeframes, risk assessment, and solutions to educational, climate, and environmental organizations worldwide without charge. We also provide a fee-based climate analysis risk assessment and solutions service to insurance companies, governments, and businesses affected by climate change emergencies.

James Hansen, the former NASA scientist, first warned us that climate change could drive humanity to extinction. He now has a new research paper that takes the air out of your lungs if you have a climate science or strong science background.

In Alberta alone more than a million acres of forest have been consumed by fire this year.

Click here to go to our new ClimateSafe Villages FAQ

Last updated 3.29.23 

Welcome to the original CSV master model for everything you ever would want to know about ClimateSafe Villages (CSV), the climate-resilient eco-communities of the future. Of course, the ongoing discussion forums at CSV will continue to add to the factors found in our 6-page CSV master model. 

Review this page only if you are seriously interested and are near to making a final decision about creating a local version of your own or if you want to join one of our four ClimateSafe Village models. If you are browsing or want to get a beginning sense of who we are and what we are doing, we strongly recommend you explore the new ClimateSafe Villages website to more easily introduce you to the many benefits of these unique and now necessary communities.

Please click here to go to our new, far less complex ClimateSafe Village website to start exploring the many positive possibilities.

Prologue 

Both the entry application process and exit process should be available to all potential new ClimateSafe Villages members before they join. This promotes informed consent and a realistic view of all aspects of eco-community life. 

The application processes for each of our four ClimateSafe Village models are found on this page in the section that describes each model. In addition, the ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham headquarters application process is found on this page. Our current ClimateSafe Village exit policies and process description are found below.

Last Updated 5.23.23

Introduction

There will be many different reasons that ClimateSafe Village members leave the community. Some individuals will have unexpected personal situations requiring them to leave the community for long periods or permanently to remedy those situations. The community will ask other individuals to leave because of serious infractions of our internal Social Contract or additional health safety or security rules.

This document provides an overview introduction to how communities will deal with this process. Each independent ecovillage will provide a complete listing of such guidelines as those guidelines are developed.

Remember that the ClimateSafe Village program addresses four different models: 1. urban, 2. rural, 3. hybrid, and 4. virtual. While some policies will be general and apply to all types, many specific policies will differ for each model and each ClimateSafe Village due to location or other factors. This document will present example policies for the general case and each ecovillage type. In the future, each independent ClimateSafe Village will adapt these policies as appropriate.

General Policies for all ClimateSafe Villages

There are many reasons a member might leave a ClimateSafe Village. These can be grouped into three categories by who initiated the move: 1. the individual, 2. the ClimateSafe Village, or 3. an external cause.

For a decision made by an individual, some examples are the individual:

• decided to move to another community; 
• disagree with coordinators or other community matters;
• found that the ecovillage culture wasn’t what they really wanted;
• weren’t ready for the increased level of community involvement;
• weren’t prepared for the increased level of personal responsibility for the ClimateSafe Village;
• couldn’t find members with similar interests;
• couldn’t adjust to the change in culture from the outside world;
• couldn’t adapt to the educational focus of the ClimateSafe Villages.

Some additional examples are:

• others in their family decided to move;
• failing personal health beyond the ecovillages ability to help;
• financial problems;
• employment issues

For a decision made by the ClimateSafe Village, some examples are:

• the view of the ecovillage that any of the conditions in the list above were occurring, but the member wouldn’t or couldn’t acknowledge them;
• the member did not understand or wouldn’t take action to understand the provisions of the Social Contract;
• the member did not understand or wouldn’t take action to understand and obey the laws of the surrounding Climate Safer Ecovillage
• The individual committed a serious crime inside the community, and law enforcement had to be notified to apprehend and remove them.

For a decision forced by external factors, some examples are:

• The individual committed a crime and was removed from the ecovillage by law enforcement;
• The individual died or was hospitalized for long-term care;
• A job change forced a move to a different location.

Policies for Urban ClimateSafe Villages

Some examples of a member leaving a ClimateSafe Village that would specifically apply to urban communities are:

• A home eviction of the member forcing relocation. For an urban community, the community would most often not be involved in covering housing costs. 

Policies for Rural ClimateSafe Villages

Some examples of a member leaving an ecovillage that would specifically apply to a rural ecovillage are:

• A medical condition arises that requires treatment not convenient in or near the ecovillage.
• An unexpected breakdown of some utility that is vital to the ecovillage. An example would be the contamination of the water supply.

Policies for Hybrid ClimateSafe Villages

A Hybrid ecovillage has the advantage of members living in an urban or suburban area but within commuting distance of a rural eco-community.  

Some examples of a member leaving an ecovillage that would specifically apply to a hybrid ClimateSafe Village are:

• The shutdown of ferry service between the two communities, with no plans for reopening. The hybrid ClimateSafe Village might switch to urban status in such a case.

Policies for Virtual Communities

Some examples of a member leaving a ClimateSafe Village that would specifically apply to a virtual eco-community are:

• Loss of internet connectivity
• Change of work commitment that no longer provided time for ecovillage involvement.
• The virtual community might be forced to block or ban that member because of severe, repeated violations of virtual online eco-community rules.

Typical Exit Process methods

The purpose of conducting a formal exit process includes the following:

• Seeking an eco-community benefit from the exiting person's skills, knowledge, and prior experience. If their experience is positive, they may keep ties with the eco-community.
• Determining how the eco-community can support the exiting person's transition out of the eco-community in the most positive ways, fully recognizing their contributions.
• By policy, the eco-community should always try to conduct the separation process on good terms. This may not always be possible. The case above for criminal activity is an example.
• The eco-community should always try to understand the reasons the individual is leaving. A discussion should always be held by a coordinator who can make it clear to the member and who the member can accept as having no intent to blame the member for anything. Using a Personalized Democracy principle, in such a discussion, there are NO adversaries. Both people are joining a process to search for answers, to search for truths from which both parties can learn and benefit.
• Provide as much time as possible before the member exit to have the discussion. Follow-on discussions may also be planned for future times after the member leaves.
• Announce the member's departure to the community in the most positive of ways and arrange the next steps for anyone who will be taking over their responsibilities. Reward the leaving member, if appropriate, to conduct a special effort to transfer knowledge. This might include, for example, summaries of their projects and deadlines.
• Allow time for the departing member to train their replacement or other members who will assume their efforts. If there's not enough time to do this in person, request instructions in writing.
• If the departing member will leave a community-owned home or a privately owned home with no person remaining that has lived in the house, ask them to help prepare a history of problems with the home and leave it in a clean and suitable condition so that other community members could move in soon after they leave
• Document the departure with a letter of resignation or termination.
• In some cases, provide a going away event where community members can thank them for their contributions and wish them the best in whatever happens next in their lives.

Dealing with real estate that you have purchased within the ClimateSafe Village when exiting the ClimateSafe Village

Some individuals will want to start building their own net-zero climate-safe homes once we have purchased the eco-community land and completed an architectural design for the eco-community layout. We will allow this to expedite community construction while we are still fundraising for these communities. Still, these private home builders must acknowledge in their land lease contracts that these homes may never be sold or rented to non-members. 

They will also guarantee these privately built homes can not be used as collateral and a sizable asset on any loan outside of existing community members. Additionally, they guarantee they will keep up with all appropriate local and state taxes so that the government cannot seize the home.  

It is essential to keep the original and any subsequent community land purchases intact and contiguous over time and not subject to being broken up by leaving members or other outside situations. Only this way will the community maintain its wholeness and integrity and fulfill its purposes. A community-managed nonprofit organization will probably make all land purchases, and the lands will be put into a land trust where it is specified that this land can only be used for the community mission-aligned purposes of sustainability, conservation, and education.

We will soon be developing specific real estate contracts that deal with anyone who has built a home on community-owned land and is leaving the community for one reason or another. These contracts generally state that the community will buy back the house at a fair market value, excluding the land and unique neighborhood values the ecovillage collectively already owns. 

The contract will specify that the community will make monthly payments on the home based on a market rate 20 or 30-year mortgage repayment plan. 

Any privately built home on ecovillage land will be based on a 99-year lease contract. The land lease contract will include all the restrictions on using and resale of that home. All land lease contracts will contain provisions about maintaining the privately built home to community standards and fair and reasonable procedures for the community to take emergency possession of the home if the member fails to pay local, state, or federal taxes on the property and the house becomes subject to outside or governmental seizure. The land lease contract will contain provisions about paying the monthly community homeowners fees set by each community to cover such things as snow removal and upgrades and repairs to community infrastructure, buildings, and local ecovillage taxes, etc.

 Privately built homes will always have to be sold back to the community under the terms of the lease agreement to maintain the contiguous land integrity of the ecovillage. However, privately built homes on eco-community land may be rented out to potential and provisionally approved members who want to live in the community on provisional status or for short-term retreats for permanent eco-community members from other areas.

We anticipate a steady demand for retreats or provisional member housing so that community members may temporarily leave their privately built homes and still have an income source. 

These 99-year leases will allow you to pass the homes to your heirs. Still, these homes can only be occupied by accepted or provisional eco-community members.

If the individual has privately purchased some other large piece of community equipment ( a snowplow, community transport tractor, etc.) valued over $3,000, which has contributed to the community use, and now seeks some form of compensation for it, on their exit, the community will repurchase this equipment at fair market value for its current used condition and make monthly payments which are deemed affordable to the eco-community for this unexpected repurchase.

Timeshare Private Built Homes

There is a possibility when we start various fundraising programs that, we might allow members to build private homes and do that with others as timeshares. In these timeshare homes, the funders could spend specific times of the year with us or rent their space to other members only. If we allow this, we will create a contract similar to our 99-year land lease contract. All timeshare homes will also be responsible for paying a monthly ecovillage membership expenses fee as described elsewhere.

Timeshare Private Homes Exit Policy

In addition to the private owners disposing of timeshare property through their channels exclusively to another member of our eco-community, there are three options to exit the timeshare or curtail monthly timeshare obligations:

1. Gift Deed Over your property to the ClimateSafe Village

2. Rent your property in the ecovillage’s retreat and provisional member housing program.

Gift Deed Over your property to the ClimateSafe Village

The Property Coordinating Group of the ecovillage must first accept the gift of this property.

a. The owner must be current on all assessments, fees, fines, taxes, or any other charges associated with the account of the property to be gifted.

b. The owner pays all title transfer fees unless the ecovillage is willing to pay this.

Rent your home property to the ClimateSafe Village for their retreat or provisional member rental program

The Property Coordinating Group of the ClimateSafe Village must first accept responsibility for the rental of this property, and both parties sign a contract that spells out all the terms and conditions.

1. Owner properties for rent will be promoted on the ClimateSafe Village’s members-only website.

2. The ClimateSafe Village will provide administrative assistance in the rental process.

3. The Owner, in collaboration with the ClimateSafe Village, will set the rental price and the minimum days of a rental, if renting for less than a full week is offered as an option. The ClimateSafe Village will have the final determination of a fair market retail prices that includes both the home value and the value of the community lands and services. The ClimateSafe Village and the owner will come to a mutually agreed split of the rental fees where the ClimateSafe Village's percentage will also never be lower than 30 percent, which would cover the minimum for administering the rental.

4. The owner must be current on all assessments, fees, fines, taxes, or any other charges on the property to be rented.

All other rental terms will be in the owner's ecovillage rental contract.

Additional exit information relevant to living within the reality of the external society: criminal acts

While the ClimateSafe Village program attempts to adopt practices that eliminate the problems of the outside world, unless the program grows to the scale of a nation, it will always be subject to the laws of the surrounding society. While the ClimateSafe Village will do as much as possible to counter adverse conditions outside of the ecovillage, complete protection is impossible. So an actual condition of the ClimateSafe Village Social Contract is that all members must comply with external law. 

A standard of practice that generally occurs is that the ClimateSafe Village will be asked to allow external law enforcement free access to patrol the ClimateSafe Village. So the condition that members must comply with external law implies that members support this practice and use ClimateSafe Village methods to make it a positive practice.

The issue of crime

The condition of external law also implies ClimateSafe Village’s response to another factor: crime. A basic tenet of the Social Contract is the adoption of Personalized Democracy. Because of its structure, almost all conditions that lead to “crime” in current society will no longer be present. This means the ClimateSafe Village itself is not expected to require or have a significant “police” component. However, if an ecovillage member does something seriously harmful, it will probably also constitute a crime by the standards of the surrounding eco-community. In such a case, an appointed ClimateSafe Village coordinator would be expected to notify the appropriate external law enforcement for action.

The issue of breeches of the Social Contract

Concerning breeches of the Social Contract that do not break external law, Personalized Democracy directly addresses this in its structure. That is, PD eliminates ALL practices of “negative” reinforcement to address social behaviors. For example, the concept of “jails” and “prisons” no longer exists. (This, by the way, is a practice well-known to modern society in Scandinavian countries.)

Instead, the basis for addressing social behavior is through “positive” reinforcement. Principle 4 of Personalized Democracy states: “Rewards in proportion to social contribution.” Through its collective productivity and surpluses, the ClimateSafe Village will always seek to provide a “livable” level of “basic life support.” Most members will enjoy a lifestyle well above that level. Their contribution to the ecovillage society will determine that level. If a member breaches the Social Contract, support for that higher level would be reduced, and social privileges would be withdrawn. 

Other Pages in the ClimateSafe Village Guide

Page 1: Introduction, Overview, and Goals

Page 2: ClimateSafe Village Qualities, Processes, Income Sources, and Safeguards

Page 3: The Four ClimateSafe Village Models and Their Operations

Page 4: Our New Personal Democracy ClimateSafe Village Management Model

Page 5: About ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham, a Unique Rural ClimateSafe Village

Page 6: Our The ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham ClimateSafe Village Application Process

Appendix Materials

The ClimateSafe Village Social Contract Page

Online Rules for Our Virtual ClimateSafe Village

Procedures and Policies for Exiting Our ClimateSafe Villages or Applying for Membership 

Personal Democracy White Paper

The ClimateSafe Villages Issues FAQ of frequently asked questions for only issues directly relating to ClimateSafe Villages issues

The ClimateSafe Villages Climate FAQ of frequently asked questions for every question you have about climate change

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