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Our organization is currently focused on educating people about climate change emergency preparation, adaptation, resilience building, and, where necessary, migration. This is because many serious consequences of climate change are now unavoidable due to a 60-year delay in resolving this emergency. Reading the rest of this page will inform you as to how serious those consequences are and how short the timelines have become.

If you are unsure about the causes of climate change, we suggest starting with Learn pull-down top link called, What Climate Change Is and Does" rather than the materials below. The climate change facts below are uncensored as compared to what you have been hearing from your government, the media, and even many environmental groups.

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Prologue

Our accelerating climate change and global heating (also known as global warming) emergency is what energizes climate marchers, climate protestors, climate conference attendees, and climate summit participants to keep going, no matter what the odds.

We ask that you read the following and form your own opinion after verifying the facts presented below. At the bottom of this page is a link to effective global warming and climate emergency solutions.)

At the end of this article, to counterbalance these highly disruptive global warming facts, you will find a link to a comprehensive four-part plan outlining actions you can take to help manage the climate change emergency. You will also find a link to the many surprising and significant benefits that you and humanity will gain as we resolve the global warming challenge, an opportunity, and an adventure. We must not forget "that our greatest challenges are also our greatest opportunities." 

Although our website highlights the difficult news about our current climate change condition, please do not think that we have given up hope on this challenging task, or that there are few benefits to be gained when we address climate change. When you're done reading this page, be sure to read the following link first, then proceed to the next link, which will help you maintain the realistic hope and balance we will all need to navigate the climate challenge together. (The second article has been read by several million people.)

Introduction:

We are unfortunately facing a mass to total extinction event within our lifetimes (the next 30-50 years). It is being caused by the many escalating consequences of the global warming and climate change emergency. The following will help you understand the definition of the climate change emergency and why it is real, even though you have likely heard little to nothing about this from our media or governments.

Quick Climate Change and Global Heating Emergency Overview:

• • Life on Earth has flourished best when atmospheric carbon levels were in a range of 200-270 ppm ( this is what they were in the pre-industrial age).

• • The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has failed to properly educate global leaders and has significantly underestimated timetables, which in turn has dangerously diminished awareness of the real climate change emergency we are in.

  • The battle to keep global warming below 2° Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) has already been lost.

• • Carbon parts per million (ppm) in the atmosphere will likely rise beyond the 550 ppm total, which translates to a 3° to 4 ° Celsius increase (5.4° to 7.2 ° Fahrenheit) in average global temperature. This level of temperature increase would create a "Hell on Earth."

  • A 6 °C (10.8°F) increase at 600 ppm is also a realistic projection, and it will occur long before 2100 if we do not radically cut global fossil fuel use immediately to these levels. (Click here to discover the details concerning what soon crossing the carbon 500 and carbon 600 ppm will mean to your survival.)

• • When we resolve the climate change emergency, numerous benefits will be realized. We will also create a new and green Third Industrial Revolution. This will, directly and indirectly, create millions of new green energy-related jobs worldwide, replacing millions of lost fossil fuel industry-related jobs.

Welcome to a not-so-happy summary of the global heating and climate change emergency...

On the following pages, you will discover the uncomfortable facts and science that define what the climate change emergency is and how rapidly global warming is actually escalating. You will also discover the many additional reasons why we are now in an undeclared but climate change extinction emergency. 

While reading this candid briefing, keep in mind that if we act wisely, together, and with urgency, we can still mitigate the catastrophic consequences of global warming that are unfolding. But, before we can wisely survive global warming, it is necessary to honestly face exactly the facts on where we are starting from.

Why 60 plus years of climate change and global heating reduction failure?

In spite of 60 years of warnings by credible scientists and the work of the environmental movement, plus a preponderance of collaborating scientific evidence, as well as numerous conferences (21 to date,) and previous treaties, the carbon dioxide and methane pollution of the atmosphere, has not stopped, slowed, or even leveled off. On the contrary, it is getting worse faster than ever before! (See atmospheric carbon graph in parts per million below.)

Leading climate scientists, such as James Hansen, who originally warned us about the global warming danger 35 years ago, say we would remain safe if carbon in the atmosphere did not exceed 350 parts per million (ppm).

As of February 2024, the carbon dioxide level was 427 ppm and is now increasing at approximately 2-3 ppm per year in a near-exponential progression.

When you combine the heating effect of carbon with the other greenhouse gases, it is referred to as the CO2e ppm rating. CO2e, or carbon dioxide equivalent. CO2e is a standard unit for measuring all greenhouse gases in terms of the amount of warming they create compared to CO2. Carbon footprints are also measured in this unit.

When you include atmospheric methane and other greenhouse gas pollutants, our current adjusted CO2e rating has already risen to a shocking level of 430 ppmv of CO2e. Worse yet, we will reach a carbon level of 450 ppm in 10 years or less, when we include atmospheric methane in our calculations.

To put this in a time-lapse perspective, from 1850 to about 1950, the increase in carbon pollution was steady at about 1 ppm per year. From 1950 to 2000, the increase rose to 2 ppm per year. Currently, on its exponential curve, it is at about 3 ppm per year and is rising rapidly toward 3-4 ppm per year. If carbon continues to rise in this exponential, nonlinear way, virtually unchecked by our ineffective previous actions, the increase could easily reach a level of 4 ppm per year by 2025.

Image via Stephen Stoft at zfacts.com

According to James Hansen, one of the world's most renowned climate researchers, a carbon level of 450 ppm would eventually correspond to and lead to an average global temperature increase of 6° Celsius (10.8° Fahrenheit) this century, ending human civilization as we know it. Based on carbon ppm levels already in the system and reaching the 450 mark, this also means that at least another 2.7 °C (4.9°F) global temperature increase beyond our current level is the eventual and inescapable future reality.

This 2.7 °C increase would also be the most realistic minimal temperature increase to predict as part of any future planning over the next 10-30 years. Bear in mind that even this scenario applies only if everything goes perfectly and we cross no additional global warming tipping points.

Unfortunately, it is highly probable that because of our ongoing denial and delay in addressing escalating global warming, atmospheric carbon parts per million will most likely continue to rapidly rise beyond the carbon 450-550 ppm total, which translates to a 3° to 4° Celsius increase (5.4° to 7.2°+ Fahrenheit) up to as much as a 6° Celsius (10.8° Fahrenheit) increase in average global temperature. (A 4° Celsius increase [7.2° Fahrenheit] in average global temperature would become “Hell on Earth” as Mark Lynas, author of Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet, has stated.)

Hansen’s projections for “ending human civilization as we know it” is not the same as mass human extinction as we approach the 5° or 6° Celsius (9° to 10.8° Fahrenheit) temperature levels. With Hansen’s 6° Celsius rise, which is expected to occur after eventually crossing the 450 ppm carbon mark, what would be considered normal, comfortable, or predictable daily life in developed nations will be severely impaired. In undeveloped nations, a level of chaos and breakdown will rapidly render most of these nations politically and economically unsustainable. As it is already occurring, the chaos in less-developed nations, destabilized by factors such as war and the climate change emergency, will affect more developed and stable nations far beyond the current massive migrations of those escaping suffering.

Despite all the media hype, 21 UN/IPCC international climate conferences, and endless warnings from credible scientists over the last 30 years, as well as national reduction pledges and treaties, the situation is worsening in a nearly exponential progression (2, 4, 8, 16, etc.). There is no denying that we are not only losing the escalating battle against global warming. Unfortunately, we are also losing it at a progressively faster rate so now global warming is close to being out of our meaningful control for the next 30-50 years. (For the precise definition of out-of-control global warming and how and why this happened, click here.)

Instead of enacting the necessary changes when they would have been far easier, more gradual, and less costly, we must now take radical, painful, and costly measures to save the future. The changes that would have been inconvenient 30 years ago will now become nearly unbearable.

Some of today’s most disturbing global heating and climate change emergency facts

1. We are not receiving accurate information about the severity of global warming, either now or in the future. The heavy fossil fuel lobbied major media conglomerates politely decline to alarm us about the real dangers of our out-of-control climate change emergency in order to allow the fossil fuel industry to continue business as usual.

2. The current atmospheric carbon ppm values related to fossil fuel burning are now approximately 427. This is higher than at any other time in the last 1 million years (possibly higher than at any time in the last 25 million years). This new carbon pollution record represents an increase of 88 ppm in carbon dioxide in the 55 years since David Keeling began making his revolutionary atmospheric carbon dioxide measurements at Mauna Loa. (See graphs in this document.)

3. Carbon pollution accumulating in the atmosphere has been increasing at an even faster rate over the last few decades. It is now nearly certain that if we refuse to take immediate and effective measures to address global warming, future increases will occur at even faster rates.

4. Global average temperatures have the potential to rise far faster than what we normally experience. For example, around 9600 BC, during the Boreal climatic phase, global temperatures rose by 7 °C (12.6°F) in less than a decade, prompting the rapid collapse of the ice sheets and a surge in sea levels. (Ice sheets are already beginning to collapse 

Our 40-year inability to control the climate change emergency and global heating emergency is due in part to:

1. 1. The lack of national and international verifiable and enforceable international laws that would make continued large-scale carbon and methane pollution of the atmosphere a strongly punished activity or crime.

   2. The physical time lags in developing and deploying the necessary infrastructure for new green energy technologies are significant. As we progress, it will likely take another 30 to 50 years. 

   3. Click here to see more key reasons for what has caused our current out-of-control global warming and climate change emergency.

If everyone and every government simultaneously agreed to scale up green energy generation immediately and there were no budgetary or resource restrictions in completing this life-critical project, it would still take hundreds of years to put that infrastructure in place. (See this MIT study for the details in this 400-year estimate.)

If escalating global warming and its consequent climate destabilization proceed to the levels currently being predicted, it will eventually cost the global society hundreds of trillions of dollars in disaster recovery, as well as soaring insurance rates, massive real estate losses and depreciation, and massive coastal and other infrastructure losses, in addition to the vast amount of human suffering and death.

Currently, most nations are struggling with debt, and their economies are experiencing anemic annual growth. How many of these nations, particularly the weakest ones, will remain politically or financially viable, stable, or even continue to exist if another 5% or more of their total GDP (the Stern Review) is drained off each year into the continually escalating costs of global warming-caused climate destabilization? Current estimates from a book called Climate Shock project that all global warming consequences will cost 10 percent, and possibly far more, of the world’s total GDP by 2100. In the latter phases of out-of-control or irreversible global warming, as described in Climageddon, the book estimates that it will require 30% of the world's GDP to keep up with the rebuilding and other costs.

The climate change emergency is already here! It's superstorms, flooding, seasonal disruptions, wildfires, heat waves, migrating insect infestations, and droughts will continue increasing in magnitude, frequency, and scale. According to a recent analysis from scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR),  "[t]he worst-case projections for global warming may be the most likely.”

The next battle now lies in preventing our near-out-of-control global warming from escalating to an extinction-level event, where human-caused carbon dioxide and methane levels in the atmosphere push global temperature increases to 4°-6° Celsius (7.2°-10.8° Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels and beyond.

An already “baked-in” future of mass extinction higher temperatures, no matter what we do

A 2° Celsius (3.6° Fahrenheit) increase in global average temperature by the year 2100 has been the official estimate of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). But it is way too low and overly optimistic. This 2° Celsius IPCC estimate is based on the operating premise that everything happening in the very complex and highly interconnected climate system will always work perfectly as predicted, in our favor, and no more known or unknown climate tipping points will be crossed.

Planning for everything to go perfectly is a recipe for failure, and a dangerous global warming shocker is hidden within these low-temperature estimates. The first wave of escalating global warming superstorms, or "millennial storms" (storm severity levels that have not been seen for thousands or tens of thousands of years), will arrive much sooner than we are currently planning for. When you include crossing more of the critical global warming tipping points and adjust projections in evaluating the current climate data, it suggests all types of extreme weather such as millennial superstorms, super droughts, super floods, and super wildfires could begin replacing our current waves of extreme weather in as little as 15 to 30 years.

Unfortunately, there's more bad news. Even if we stopped emitting all carbon dioxide and methane greenhouse gases today, we face considerably more global warming than the IPCC has publicly stated. According to Michael Mann, Distinguished Professor of Meteorology at the University of Pennsylvania, we are already on track for a total rise in temperature of 1.7 °C (about 3°F) in the Northern Hemisphere, regardless of what we do to slow or stop global warming. In part, this is because future global warming is already “baked into” the warming pipeline.

This is what it is called “committed warming.” Committed warming is inevitable, delayed only by the lag time for the oceans to heat up, owing to the slow ocean warming response to greenhouse gases.

The temperature increase of 1.7 °C (3°F) is already committed. This is baked-in global warming, and it is really bad news.

Worse yet, the computer modeling used to create the 1.7 °C Celsius prediction also does not account for the possibility that we have already unconsciously crossed or could soon cross additional global warming tipping points. If that happens or is likely to happen soon, the calculation for already committed global warming could be significantly above 1.7° Celsius. We could rapidly move through an increase of 2° or 3 °C (3.6°F to 5.4°F) and beyond.   

Additionally, after all of the atmospheric fossil fuel-related soot is gone, global temperatures are estimated to go up an additional .2 to .5° Celsius (0.36°-1° Fahrenheit), depending upon the atmospheric soot levels in your area of the world. 

This additional calculation, which estimates how the average global temperature will increase as we rapidly reduce the aerosol soot created by fossil fuel burning, is significant. This implies that planning your personal or business future using only 1.7 °C (3°F) of already committed and “baked-in” average global warming is also a faulty and dangerous assumption for future planning.

It would be far wiser to assume an increase in average global temperature of 1.9° to 2.2 °C (about 3.4° to 4°F) as a long-term planning starting point. While 1.9° to 2.2 °C is more realistic, it is still not as effective as the most realistic 2.7 °C increase for longer-term planning. This is because the previous temperature planning starting point of 1.7° to 2.2 °C (3° to 4°F) also does not include any calculations regarding crossing more global warming and climate system or subsystem tipping points, which are highly likely to happen.

To put this already committed, non-tipping point inclusive temperature range increase of 1.7° to 2.2° Celsius into another comparative perspective, the IPCC, at the last Paris conference in December 2015, still pushed hard, promoting that global warming should not rise above 1.5° Celsius (2.7° Fahrenheit). This is because they already know a 1.5° Celsius increase heralds an unending chain of horrific disasters for many of the world’s poorest countries. Why the IPPC promoted a global temperature target that was below the already known baked-in increase is hard to comprehend, and it will be indirectly explained here.

According to Professor Mann, when we hit 405 parts per million (ppm) of carbon in the atmosphere, we have now committed ourselves to a 2° Celsius (3.6° Fahrenheit) increase in global temperature. Now add the fact that none of the above global warming calculations, except the 2.7°C (4.9°F) projection, include any possibility that we have already unknowingly crossed or will cross additional global warming tipping points. We are in deep trouble already!

From the preceding, it would be unrealistic to continue promoting the idea that we can realistically keep the average global temperature increase below 2 °C. Yet, that is exactly what the IPCC promoted to the world’s nations at its 2015 Paris conference, in addition to promoting its lower 1.5 °C (2.7°F) target.

It is time to face bitter facts. The battle to keep warming from rising less than 2° Celsius (3.6° Fahrenheit) has been lost!

In reality, if we include crossing more tipping points, we face a baked-in 2.7 °C (4.9°F) average global temperature rise as we approach carbon levels of 425 to 450 ppm. We need to begin preparing for these severe temperature increases immediately, while we still have time.

It is also important to be aware that, even though the 2.7 °C temperature is already baked in and committed, due to the previously mentioned momentum and inertia issues, it does not mean these higher temperatures will occur immediately. It could take a decade or more for these baked-in temperature rises to be fully realized.

Additionally, when we extrapolate from the IPCC’s own current worst-case projections using what you have learned so far, a 6° Celsius (10.8° Fahrenheit) increase occurring much sooner than 2100 becomes a real probability. This eventual 6° Celsius temperature increase prediction is based on these highly probable assumptions:

1. We continue business as usual, increasing the carbon pollution of the atmosphere at our current exponentially rising levels of carbon 3-4+ ppm per year,

2. Methane continues rising as it has over the last several decades because of the fracking boom, big agribusiness, and other factors, and

3. We have unknowingly already crossed or will soon cross more known or unknown global warming tipping points within any of the critical systems or subsystems of the climate system. For example, in May 2014, we crossed another critical climate tipping point when scientists discovered that the West Antarctic Ice Shelf had entered an irreversible and escalating melt phase.

According to the climate author Mark Lynas, if we let our planet’s temperature increase by 6° Celsius (10.8° Fahrenheit), “it would cause a mass extinction of almost all life and probably reduce humanity to a few struggling groups of embattled survivors clinging to life near the poles.” 

In order for humanity to endure, we now have no other prudent choice but to do whatever we can to mitigate and slow the long-term impact of this emergency, so that global warming does not lead to our extinction. We may still have enough time to prepare families, businesses, nations, and ourselves for the tremendous stress that escalating global warming will cause—but only if we begin preparing for it now!

Putting only a 2° Celsius temperature rise in perspective using carbon levels and temperature fluctuations from Earth’s past

Seeing the climate change emergency from as many perspectives as possible will help you better grasp the depth and seriousness of the emergency we are in. For example, the Earth’s geologic past not only verifies that specific outcomes of global warming have occurred, but also provides us with vital information about what similar consequences will likely occur as we replicate the carbon dioxide levels, atmospheric temperatures, and other conditions of our distant and not-so-distant past. 

According to a 2015 paper in Science, about three million years ago:

1. The average global temperature was approximately 1.7°-2.7 °C (3°-5°F) warmer than it is today.

2. The Arctic regions of the planet were about 7° Celsius (12.6° Fahrenheit) warmer. 

3. Carbon dioxide levels were about as high as today.

4. Sea levels stood at least 20 feet (6-7 meters) above today’s level.

In our more recent geological past, around 400,000 to 125,000 years ago, average global temperatures were approximately 2 °C (3.6°F) and 1 °C (1.8°F) above pre-industrial times. During those two separate time periods, the upper bounds for sea-level rise were estimated to be up to 42 feet higher (13 meters) than the present. As you can imagine, at those temperatures, either of the sea level rises (20 feet or 42 feet) would be a nightmare for world shorelines and their populations if they were to occur today.

Unfortunately, that is exactly what we are racing toward—and beyond. According to the same Science article, even if we managed to limit average global warming to just 2° Celsius (3.6° Fahrenheit), sea levels may still eventually rise at least 20 feet (6 meters) above their current levels. 

The illustration below will be useful for mid-range planning (the next 10-15 years) for any industry, individual, or nation whose future plans will be affected by the previously discussed consequences of escalating global warming. Keep in mind, this illustration with its estimated time frames does not include crossing any additional tipping points.

Why this climate change and global heating State of Emergency isn’t being discussed by our political leaders

To help you understand where and why we are currently losing the battle to mitigate global warming, we have provided the following Keeling-style graphs for atmospheric carbon level data in various sections of this document.     

Image via Robert A. Rohdes, Wikimedia Commons.

The graph above shows variations in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere over the last 400,000 years. It also helps illustrate the progression of carbon pollution data from the Industrial Revolution of the 1880s to the present day. Other data also show the carbon ppm levels for the last several hundred thousand to millions of years. This way, you can see the modern spike in today's carbon pollution emergency in a historical context, especially post-industrial.

More carbon in the atmosphere equals more heat

It is important to notice in the graph above that the long-term average carbon parts per million (ppm) never rose much above 270 ppm until the Industrial Revolution. For hundreds of thousands of years, carbon ppm remained in a general range significantly below its current level. Only hundreds of millions of years ago were carbon ppm levels much higher, during Earth's turbulent developmental and volcanic periods.

Something has radically changed in carbon ppm atmospheric levels since the beginning of the fossil fuel-powered Industrial Revolution of the 1880s. For the first time in hundreds of thousands of years, we have now crossed the unprecedented carbon 400 ppm level. Today's carbon ppm level of 413+ is now nearly double the carbon 200-270 ppm range it held consistently for hundreds of thousands of years. This radical change in such a short period of geological time can and will have serious consequences!

Even if we do not cross any other global warming tipping points, which avoidance is highly unlikely, simply by extrapolating the current exponential rise per year and cumulative carbon levels, we could reach 550 ppm in carbon in 30-40 years...or sooner. If we hit carbon 550 ppm, which translates to a temperature increase range of about 3° to 4°+ Celsius increase (5.4° to 7.2°+ Fahrenheit), as it appears we will, this "seals the deal" on destructive changes for most life on Earth (as described in Phase 3 of the Climageddon Scenario).

Extrapolating from the carbon ppm and average global temperature graph shown below, it appears that despite all the efforts we are making now to slow the escalation of global warming, the current global average temperature is increasing by approximately 0.5 degrees for every 25 additional parts per million of carbon entering the atmosphere.

Image via Stephen Stoft at zfacts.com

The graph above provides evidence that CO2 is a contributing factor to global warming. This ongoing or increasing use of fossil fuels will increase carbon ppm, which in turn increases the average global temperature. The increased or decreased carbon ppm in the atmosphere appears to have a direct or near-direct relationship with rising and falling temperatures, dating back to Earth's earliest times.

Image via Robert A. Rhodes, Wikimedia Commons.

In the next graph below, one can see carbon pollution levels hundreds of millions of years into our past. As you can extrapolate from the carbon ppm range disclosed near the bottom of the far lower left of the graph, modern life forms as we know them today appear to exist and function best when atmospheric carbon levels are quite low in about the 200-270 ppm range.  Life on Earth was much different from the higher carbon levels seen hundreds of millions of years ago.

How human systems contribute to the climate change and global heating State of Emergency

It would not be fair to discuss over 30 years of continuous global warming warnings without also describing some of the problems of inertia within our human systems. Inertia is defined as the resistance of any physical object to any change in its current state of motion (including changes to its speed, direction, or state of rest or motion).

Our current global society is locked into the grip of almost a century and a half of change resistance (inertia) that favors using more and more fossil fuel. Part of the reason for this resistance is that fossil fuel use is directly or indirectly responsible for about one-third of the world's gross domestic product (GDP).

The fossil fuel industry fosters a powerful human system of resistance to change that we must overcome in order to successfully transition to green energy generation systems. The fossil fuel industry is constantly fighting the necessary evolution of our energy generation systems. However, even if we were to end all fossil fuel use today, it is estimated that it would take 30 to 50 years to replace all of the current fossil fuel generation and distribution infrastructure.

Unfortunately, there is nothing close to a unanimous agreement to act now, and we don't have another 30 to 50 years to fight the resistance of various fossil-fueled nations and fossil fuel-related corporations. Therefore, it is completely fair to say that the fossil fuel industry resistance and inertia are significant factors explaining why, after 30 years of warnings, global warming is actually getting worse and not better!

In addition to the inertia and resistance of the fossil fuel industry working against efforts to end the use of polluting fossil fuels, there are other significant human system resistance (inertia) factors for why global warming is escalating faster than ever before in spite of all previous warnings:

1) Human evolutionary psychology: We are designed to react to immediate and obvious threats with the fight-or-flight response. Escalating global warming is slow, almost invisible, and it is generally believed to be far off in the future. Also, for many individuals, it is so complex that it can't be comprehended as the single most serious international security threat of the 21st century. 

2) Human political evolution: Human society has not yet evolved a global government with transnational enforcement and verification powers over all the member nations of our world. Global warming is a transnational problem that has to have a transnational solution.

3) Human legal evolution: Humanity has not evolved viable global courts to work out the inherent international justice issues relating to the developed countries that caused the pollution and will likely benefit from it in the short term. We really have no international justice process for dealing with the fact that undeveloped countries that didn't cause the pollution are expected to suffer nearly equally in the costs and efforts of resolving it.

4) Global political evolution: The designated world authority, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC), failing to properly educate global leaders on all critical global warming risks, along with providing significantly underestimated timetables, has dangerously diminished a global sense of collective urgency and public awareness. This has significantly reduced the demand for change even though strong warnings were initiated over 30 years ago.

There are other reasons why we have failed for 30 years and still face a daunting challenge to end the climate change emergency, which will be covered in detail here. 

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A difficult climate change truth

Before facing a difficult truth, it is important to review the definitions of climate and weather. Climate is the statistics of weather, usually over a 30-year interval. It is measured by assessing the patterns of variation in temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, precipitation, atmospheric particle count, and other meteorological variables in a given region over long periods of time. Climate differs from weather in that weather only describes the short-term conditions of these variables in a given region. (From Wikipedia.)

Fossil fuel lobbyists often intentionally confuse us by directing our attention to the far shorter time cycles of climate and weather. In contrast, global warming cycles occur over far longer time periods (as seen in the graphs depicting hundreds, thousands, and millions of years). When we compare the current global warming cycle and temperature range to past global warming cycles and temperature ranges, rather than tiny 30-year climate cycles, we can see what's really happening and how dangerous global warming is to our future.

From the preceding, it is not difficult for any rational person to see that we are dealing with far more than garden-variety seasonal changes in the weather or the normal 30-year climate cycle. We are dealing with a full-blown and yet undeclared climate change emergency.

In truth, we have wasted over 30 years of valid warnings, and now there is no time left to make the gradual changes that we should have begun over 30 years ago. Immediate, radical, and painful changes must happen now. Our global warming emergency is not something that will occur in the future 25, 50, or 100 years from now, as you have been led to believe. Our global warming emergency is now.

Here are the critical additional links to review to gain a deeper understanding of our current mass extinction event threat, its solutions, climate, and the soon-arriving four extinction-provoking tipping points related to global warming.

Once you have read the following critical additional materials to this article, you will understand the full spectrum of extinction dangers we face, and you will be one of the most informed individuals regarding the honest nature and scope of our global warming extinction emergency.

First, click here to learn about our last practical and realistic opportunity to control our global warming futures and prevent extinction by achieving the 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets. These global targets are not at all what you have been told by our fossil fuel-influenced media. This article will also provide you with detailed information about what happens when we cross the three extinction-evoking tipping points of carbon at 425 ppm, 500 ppm, and 600 ppm.

Click here for a quick overview of how the currently unavoidable global warming mass extinction threat has now been eclipsed by the very real threat of total extinction as we quickly pass through the three major global warming tipping points within the next 30-30 years. 

And finally, click here to review and select from the solution action options available to you to prepare for, adapt to, and manage this emergency in the Job One for Humanity Plan. This way, you will be able to prepare and adapt wisely so that you survive and thrive through what is now unavoidable in the global warming consequences.

If you understand enough about this emergency, please sign the petition to declare a Climate Change and Global Warming Extinction Emergency and then start the Job One Plan to resolve this mess as best we can. 

Climate Change and Global Heating Emergency Summary:

• In the above graphs of this document, the predictions for increased carbon ppm levels and temperature, unfortunately, does not also include: the continued likelihood that more carbon ppm (about 3-4 ppm per year,) will enter the atmosphere each year due to increasing population and fossil fuel use, causing an ever-faster rate of average global temperature increase, or the effects of the additional methane going into the atmosphere because of existing and new natural gas fracking, all of the existing leaks in methane storage and transportation systems, and big agribusiness, or calculations for more climate tipping points that will be crossed as the atmosphere heats up in a vicious self-reinforcing cycle and a positive feedback loop. 

• Despite 35 years of warnings from credible scientists and compelling scientific evidence, atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane pollution have continued to worsen.

• We are already in an unacknowledged state of global warming emergency.

• • Do not be fooled by what you read about global warming reduction progress or fossil fuel reduction commitments in fossil fuel-lobbied and influenced mainstream media. The fossil fuel industry wants to keep making money and polluting our atmosphere without charge.

  • In a nutshell, the climate change emergency is due to:

    • Today’s carbon ppm level of about 427 ppm is doubling from the carbon 200-270 range it held consistently for hundreds of thousands of years,
    • Carbon ppm levels are rising exponentially at the greatest levels since the Industrial Revolution, and
    • We are poised to cross more global warming tipping points, moving us ever closer to the extinction phases of the Climageddon Scenario. In effect, our climate change emergency should be more accurately described as our climate change extinction emergency or the global warming extinction emergency.

  • According to James Hansen, even a carbon 450 ppm level (which will occur in about 10-15 years at present carbon pollution rates) would eventually correspond to an average global temperature increase of 6° Celsius (10.8° Fahrenheit) in this century and the end of human civilization as we’ve come to know it.

  • Our current global warming extinction emergency marks the end of the climate stability that has allowed humanity and humanity’s ancestors to flourish for hundreds of thousands of years.

  • We need to get busy reaching the last chance  2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets.
  • If we do not reach or come very close to the 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets, we not only will suffer a global warming-caused mass extinction event within the next 30-50 years, we also will trigger a total extinction event within the next 50-70 years.
  • To reach or come close to the life-critical 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets, we must prepare and adapt in order to survive and thrive. The most effective way to do this is to initiate the Job One for Humanity Plan to address the climate change emergency.
  • Click here to see where we are today on the Climate Change and Global Warming Doomsday Clock.

The essential positive perspective on the above disruptive global heating and climate change news

Despite the numerous types of challenging consequences of global warming and past mistakes in reducing fossil fuel emissions that we now face, we can still learn from their feedback and adapt and evolve to make life as good and as happy as possible. No matter how severe the consequences of global warming may become, if we wisely play the remaining cards that have been dealt to us, we can still achieve the best possible outcomes. 

We can still make a significant difference in reducing global fossil fuel use to stabilize and save the future of humanity by implementing a comprehensive reduction and survival plan, such as the Job One for Humanity global warming action plan. 

We can still maintain the perseverance needed to succeed in this monumental task by regularly reviewing the many benefits that will occur as we work successfully on this project together. Although we are now in what could be called a Great Global Collapse process triggered by accelerating global warming, this collapse process will eventually offer equal to (or even greater than) long-term benefits in the form of a potential Great Rebirth beyond the coming suffering and loss.

First on this page (that has been read almost 2 million times) and then on this other critical global warming benefit page, you will find the many often hidden surprise benefits of the global warming challenge. You will also find a framework and possibilities for what could be called a post-collapse Great Rebirth, regardless of how severe the collapse process becomes.

We can persevere through this time of emergency. We just need to remember that our greatest challenges are also the seeds of our greatest opportunities.

We are engaged in nothing less than the most critical and meaningful evolutionary opportunity, challenge, and adventure in human history! It is our last opportunity to slow down the mass human extinction threat by getting close to these 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets. Only reaching these targets will fully remove the total extinction threat. In reaching these targets, we also significantly improve many of the world's other 12 major challenges.

Get started today on the Job One for Humanity global warming reduction and survival plan. Help save and salvage as much of humanity and our beautiful civilization as is possible.

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(This page is derived substantially from the 2016 book, Climageddon, The Global Warming Emergency and How to Survive It. It has been updated with new climate research since 2016 as applicable. Climageddon is Available on Amazon.)

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