2. All volunteers should be informed with a basic understanding of the current runaway global heating emergency and the benefits of fixing it

If you have not read about these things already, there are four essential things needed for volunteers to have a basic understanding of the runaway global heating emergency so they can speak to others about this emergency confidently:

a. One must understand the current climate situation as described on this critical climate facts page. This illustrated page and its deeper science verification links are all you need to know about the runaway global heating emergency to start and sound like a climate expert or scientist.

b. It is even more essential to understand the many benefits you will help create when we get this climate nightmare fixed. When you know what you are working for and not just what you are trying to prevent, you are far more likely to stay motivated when things are not going well. Click here to read the global heating benefits page. It is the most read page on our website with over 2 million views. 

c. Additionally, one should also understand why media climate reports are underestimated by about 20-40%. This underestimation factor means the climate predictions the media are stating about how bad the climate will be in the future are:

1. about 20 to 40% less than they will be, and,

2. they will arrive about 20 to 40% sooner than the media tells you. 

This underestimation factor is a great climate conversation opener because so few people know about something that will be so important to their future. Furthermore, if you do not actively educate others about this underestimation and why it is happening, they will keep believing the grossly underestimated climate summary reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change spread by the media worldwide. Then, falsely thinking they are safe and there is little real urgency because of the underestimated media, they will do little to nothing to help fix our accelerating global heating emergency. (Click here to read all about this media underestimation.)

d. All volunteers would be well served to also understand why we use particular climate change-related language at Job One. There is real power in using the most concise terms when discussing climate change and runaway global heating. This page will help you speak about the climate change subject with words that will most accurately state our current climate situation and help create the most consequential changes.

3. How to correctly copy materials on our website for your local use

As an independent volunteer, in your efforts to help educate others, you may use (or restate) all of the non-members-only climate and runaway global heating materials you find on our website. (You may not copy and distribute anything you find in the Members section of our website.) However, we strongly recommend that you avoid rephrasing the science content of our web pages. Climate science is full of complexities and nuances easily misunderstood or not seen. 

If you choose to restate or create your own climate or other materials using our materials, please always list Job One for Humanity as the source material and create a link back to the Job One for Humanity original page materials that you are using or rewriting! This way, people will ask us technical questions about the science, and they can see our linked references and methodology.

In any independent climate videos or other written materials you may produce, always say that the information in your videos or writings represents your humble opinion! In the US (and many developed countries,) as long as something is clearly labeled as your personal opinion, you cannot be successfully sued for saying any opinion or sharing any opinion. (IMHO, at the bottom of articles or videos is short for "in my humble opinion.")

Please also note that our educational materials are not meant for adolescents under 16 years old because of their serious and adult nature. Please allow children under 16 to be children and do not force them to deal with such an adult and upsetting matter.

 

4. Why our volunteers do not waste their valuable time and effort trying to educate or convince certain types of individuals

Here are some tips on where and how to spend you time educating about the runaway global heating emergency. Once they have shared copies of our climate materials (or links to our climate materials,) our volunteers should not waste valuable time trying to educate or convince anyone in the following categories:

a. climate deniers, climate trolls, individuals without open minds, or those who have a hidden (or transparent) vested financial interests in the profits of the fossil fuel industry or fossil fuel economy,

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

c. those who simply do not have the intellectual bandwidth to grasp even the central easier ideas of the vast complexity of the interconnectedness and the interdependencies of the climate system and its subsystems.

The Job One for Humanity nonprofit organization is not here to convince people in one-on-one online or offline debates that we are in a runaway global heating extinction emergency! Instead, we provide honest climate data and analysis on our website and then allow individuals the time to read and think about that information privately and carefully. Once they have done so, reasonable individuals will make their own decisions about the dangers and reality of the runaway global heating emergency.

There is no time left to waste on individuals or organizations that will only suck up immeasurable amounts of your time and deny climate realities or do nothing. The individuals mentioned above seldom, if ever, change their minds about the runaway global heating emergency. In fact, if they can't figure out the right climate facts by quietly reading and evaluating our extensive website information, it is not likely that any amount of educating or convincing that you do will ever make any difference whatsoever. 

After 12 years of dealing with such individuals, we have found that the best policy is to simply ignore them. We discovered that almost all of them have never even read much climate science or the information on our website. They simply hold onto whatever climate opinions they had before engaging with us, no matter what climate science we send to them to read and evaluate for themselves.

We have also discovered that some of these kinds of individuals will near completely ignore discussing substantive climate science or its details and merits in the posting or article. Instead, they will focus most of their negative comments or wild and unfounded attacks on the individual posting or responding personality.

We do not spend additional time educating another type of individual We do not waste time with any individuals who psychologically or emotionally are incapable of accepting any idea that humanity could soon go near-totally extinct because of the well-documented consequences of rising runaway global heating.

This runaway global heating extinction idea creates so much psychological and emotional stress within them that accepting the possibility or probability that runaway global heating extinction could be real would emotionally or psychologically seriously destabilize them and their lives so much that they must reject the concept of runaway global heating-driven extinction at all costs! If they do not reject the reality of a possible or coming runaway global heating extinction, they will suffer the pain and tension of unreconcilable cognitive dissonance. 

For their health and well-being, do not engage with this kind of individual should you meet them.

And finally, the biggest underlying reason we ask our volunteers and team members not to spend time educating or convincing the individuals named above is that we are honestly almost out of time to prevent a runaway global heating-driven extinction. We do not have enough time left to spend on these types of individuals we could be working with those individuals who are ready, have the bandwidth, and I've already done some deep thinking about the issue.

But, the good news is that there are many reasons, open, intelligent, internally secure, and mature enough individuals who are willing to read, think for themselves, and then decide upon the merits of the climate facts they have discovered, no matter how bad those facts might be.

Spend your time with them, and we have a chance to save up to 50% of humanity We are in the 11th hour, at best, we have another 3-9 years (from 2025-2031) to prevent a near-total human extinction event.

Never forget that Job One for Humanity is racing to put out a REAL fire. As the Job One for Humanity fire engine rolls by, some will not like its color, and others will say the siren is too loud or the fire engine is going too fast. When racing to a real fire and emergency, you certainly don't stop dealing with such things of far lesser importance; you just continue racing to your destination and put out the fire.

5. Regularly share your successes, suggestions, and problems with us for several reasons.

Because almost all of our self-organizing volunteers are working remotely and independently online around the world, unless you share your challenges or problems with us, we will not be aware of them so that we can bring our experience and knowledge to help you. Additionally, unless you regularly share your successes with us, other volunteers will not benefit from your wisdom and experience in their projects.

Please stay in regular touch with us with wins or problems by emailing us at ([email protected]) whenever you need help or have done something wonderful so we can share it with other volunteers.

 

6. Critical Legal information for ALL Job One for Humanity volunteers (including special legal information if you get involved in protest actions.)

Getting specific legal issues out in the open and out of the way is essential so that we may have a productive and healthy relationship. Understanding the following is necessary so that our organization can grow and thrive and not be thwarted or sabotaged by individuals or organizations who have either bad intentions toward our resolving climate change mission or are working for the hidden financial interests of the global fossil fuel conglomerate.

These clear legal boundaries also keep our organization and mission from being infiltrated or thwarted by agent provocateurs or others seeking to act in a way to harm the organization moving its mission forward or our reputation. The global fossil fuel conglomerate is the largest industry on the planet producing about 1/3 of the Earth's total gross domestic product about $28 trillion a year. They are very unhappy with us publishing uncensored climate change research and analysis not to mention the required and honest global fossil fuel reduction targets found here.

Your are not a legal agent or executive of Job One for Humanity

Job One for Humanity has no employees, but we have many worldwide independent, self-organizing volunteers forwarding our climate and runaway global heating analysis and remedial plans. Because you operate completely independently of our organization, please do not ever represent yourself as our legal agents or representatives unless we have given you this special legal status from us in writing! 

Our logo and materials

Also, never use our Job One for Humanity name or logo on anything you independently produce or alter and publish that is also found on our website that is not our unaltered authentic website materials with a link to our original web page without our prior written permission! 

You do not make or change organizational policy

As an independent, self-organizing volunteer, you are not authorized agents or legal representatives of the Job One for Humanity Organization for creating, altering, or publish Job One policies. Only our board of directors may make policy or position statements, take public actions, or make public statements that officially represent our research or non-profit organization.

Your choose your own actions

Job One for Humanity does not have any form of a central command center that either directs or selects your or any volunteer's independent projects. As a volunteer, only you choose, plan, and execute your projects to help resolve the runaway global heating extinction emergency. We may answer your climate questions or offer moral support for actions in alignment with our policies, but we will never tell you what to do or say.

Materials you may submit or post on our website

Keep in mind that Job One for Humanity acts as a climate change information distribution and sharing hub similar to Facebook, Reddit, Google Groups, etc. Accordingly, independent individuals and volunteers post their information and comments on our climate information distribution hub in the blog, our comments fields, and other areas.

Suppose you submit or post any materials on our website as an independent volunteer. In that case, YOU are responsible for ensuring that these materials do not contain ANY copyrighted materials you do not own! If you post copyrighted materials on our website for which you do not own the copyright, you can and will be held legally and financially responsible for those copyright violations with the lawful copyright owner. 

Confidential Job One for Humanity materials

While volunteering for Job One for Humanity, you may be exposed to or work with confidential materials belonging to this website, such as email lists, donor lists, or other confidential member materials. You may not copy, distribute, or use this information in any way other than what has been shown to you regarding only the uses required for the position you have volunteered. It is a criminal offense to steal or distribute any confidential information you may have had access to while volunteering at Job One for Humanity unless fully authorized by our organization in writing.

Illegal or violent actions

And finally, never do anything illegal or violent. We NEVER endorse or support ANY illegal or violent activity. If you engage in any unlawful or violent activity, because you are an independent volunteer it will be you and not us that could (or will be) held legally responsible by local authorities for your actions. 

Our organization is absolutely against all physical violence or violent revolution. We only endorse peaceful protest and peaceful civil disobedience that would make Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, and Nelson Mandela proud.

Please also note that our educational materials are not meant for adolescents under 13 years old because of their serious and adult nature. Please allow children under 13 to be children and do not force them to deal with such an adult and upsetting matter.

Protest Actions

If you get involved in any climate protest actions, be sure to first read this page and then read  this page on necessary climate disruption and civil disobedience. 

Please note: all volunteer positions start with a 90-day provisional status. Shortly after the 90 day mark of your active project volunteering, we will meet with you to see that the relationship is mutually beneficial.

 

7. It is wise for volunteers to understand the difference between prioritized, effective critical path Runaway Global Heating actions that meet key extinction prevention deadlines and simple climate change progress 

Volunteers will hear lots of people claim we are making climate progress, but that progress is not necessarily what is critically needed to meet extinction preventing climate 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 near-total extinction; we must now focus only on those prioritized, truly effective critical path climate actions that will successfully achieve crucial extinction-prevention deadlines. Unfortunately, these truly effective prioritized, critical path climate actions are also the most difficult.

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

Consequently, they develop climate change action programs that do not fit the true urgency of our emergency. Fortunately, this critical climate change deadline is known and available here, so they can quickly correct this once attention is called to this 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 and cannot save us in time, we are in very 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 as well.

With these types of climate and environmental organizations, start with our climate educational tactics first! Let them see the correct climate extinction deadline we all need to work toward. Then, once they see their minor climate progress actions in the light of "all hands on deck" for the rapidly approaching runaway global heating extinction point of no return, many will change strategies. Many of them also will 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 little time remaining (2025-2031) to soothe ourselves with bits and pieces of "feel good" off deadline and off critical path minor climate progress. Instead, we must be entirely focused on the effective remaining prioritized critical path actions that can and will save the rest of humanity from extinction before it is too late!

 

8. Additional important volunteer information

Here are a few additional things all volunteers should be aware of:

1. Climate Justice requires that all volunteers do their best also to get the uncensored Job One for Humanity climate analysis and facts to those individuals living in poor and undeveloped countries. In general, the poor and undeveloped countries have done the least to create the runaway global heating extinction emergency. Yet, they will usually be the first to experience the worst of the runaway global heating consequences. 

If you speak languages other than English, please translate our materials and videos as best as you can. If you are from a non-English speaking country, consider becoming a global heading educational leader for your nation.

All people from all nations must be equally allowed to survive the coming extinction of almost half of humanity by mid-century. Climate justice demands that no special consideration be given to wealthy individuals or developed nations when managing the global runaway global heating extinction emergency --- especially in light of the fact that developed wealthy nations have done the most by far to create this nightmare.

2. None of the Job One main office volunteers work on weekends or holidays unless they choose to. It is essential to have time away from such challenging and vital volunteer work. This means that our volunteer team only replies to emails within 1-2 non-holiday business days.

3. Our volunteer team managers will strive to make your volunteer work as fun, engaging, and meaningful as possible while together, we all bring our combined talents to resolving the runaway global heating extinction emergency.

4. Click here for help setting up your local climate education group with our Join-A-Hub ally.

9. Our strongly recommended first project for all new volunteers.

Here is the strongly recommended first project for all new volunteers. Strongly recommend you start with this because it will be easier to get going and have some success and fun. Please begin this as soon as possible:

Contact other people in your area who are open to learning about runaway global heating and help educate them about the ten critical climate facts and the many benefits we will get once we get runaway global heating under control.

You can do the following in any order you like, but it is critical that everyone does their part by reaching out to others before it is too late to prevent the worst coming runaway global heating consequences:

Part a: You can begin by using our simple climate change and global heating "elevator pitch" found here to start conversations with friends, neighbors, work associates, and strangers and let them know how serious the current climate emergency is. In these conversations, personally share what you have learned about the runaway global heating emergency. Or,

Part b: You can start conversations with friends, neighbors, work associates, and strangers and let them know the many wondrous benefits they, the society, and the world will receive when we get the runaway global heating emergency under control. Click here to read about the many benefits of global heating and climate change if you have not done so already. This benefits page is the most read page of our website with over 2 million visits.

 

 

Part c:  You can email your friends or the people you talk to this critical link to the ten critical climate facts on the Job One website. This one page and its links will quickly educate anyone on our perilous climate change condition. You can also email them the global heating benefits page if you think that will be better.

Part d: At some point, ask them to sign online runaway global heating petitions found here on our website or our even easier "I will commit to helpful climate actions pledge."

Part e: Eventually, when they seem ready, ask your friends and neighbors to join your climate change educational work or volunteer at Job One. This way, you build up a local action and support group membership. 

Please keep us informed about your project successes or problems. This information will help other volunteers. Before you start the above project, we have just one important page you need to read that contains everything you need to know about being a Job One for Humanity volunteer. Click here to read this essential page.

 

10. How to wisely start any project that you choose

The Job One for Humanity organization is a climate think tank at its core. Our job is to analyze current and past climate research. 

We publish our climate analysis and recommendations on our website. But, the organization has not been set up to distribute this information or enact the recommendations for fixing the runaway global heating extinction emergency. Instead, we rely 100% upon our volunteers and website's many members and subscribers to share this climate information. Consequently, when you volunteer at job one for humanity, you are the one who must be the one to plan and execute whatever project you have selected for yourself. 

The following are a few tips it will help you get your first and subsequent projects rolling successfully:

1. After choosing the project you want to work on, plan out how you would like to achieve it and what your goals should be for that project. 

2. You will need creativity and persistence on your chosen projects to get around climate change ignorance and the normal resistance to change.

3. Keep your project goals humble in the beginning to build success momentum.

4. Once you've completed your planning stage, consider the resources you will need, particularly other human resources. We strongly recommend that if you have friends, family, or business associates in your local area, invite them to join you in your project. Having others working with you ner your location improves the meaningful satisfaction and enjoyment you can experience doing any project.

Also, having others involved will provide essential additional support for you when things aren't going well, and you are trudging through the everyday resistance to change. Extensive research has shown that being in a supportive network can be up to 90% of the reason people are successful in achieving some goal.

5. Go into action on your project. As you progress on your goals, please take a moment to recognize those accomplishments and share those accomplishments with others locally and with us at Job One for Humanity.

6. When things get tough or bogged down, remember to return to this benefits page to help you restore and renew your motivation and persistence. This challenge also is an excellent time to bring your support team together to help brainstorm and renew your motivation and support.

7. Always celebrate and share your successes with us, and we will share them with other volunteers in the network.

 

11. Become the change you want to see in the world

Making personal progress on your chosen Job One Plan B steps is also essential. This action will help you better understand what we must go through to fix the climate and make you an example of what you are educating others about. 

Remember, you do not have to be perfect. Just make some progress regularly on the changes we need to make as described in the Job One, Plan B. Making progress on Job One, Plan B will also keep you and yours safer while you do this great work for yourself and the world.

Click here for how to get started with your Job One Plan B. 

12. About Job One for Humanity does its climate analysis and projections

Volunteers should know a bit about the organization in which they are volunteering.

Job One for Humanity, founded in 2008, is a non-profit and independent climate change think tank that provides a "big picture" holistic view and analysis of the inter-connected and inter-dependent climate systems creating our current climate change emergency.

While we do not do in-house original climate research, we use the published research papers of independent and respected climate scientists and climate research from organizations like the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA.) 

Many climate research papers and summary materials reviewed or used by this organization in its analysis, prediction, or recommendations are also found listed:

1. in this extensive but still partial master list of these related or relevant climate research papers and summaries.
2. in many available video presentations by the climate scientists or researchers describing their own research. Click here to see an example in the video of the renowned climate scientist Kevin Anderson presenting the climate emergency at Oxford.
3. in the body of many of our web pages, in the links on those pages, or in the end notes or technical notes found at the end of many pages.

We provide our climate and global heating educational information for individuals and organizations with the understanding that they will independently evaluate it and decide upon its usefulness and accuracy based on the best climate science and analysis currently available.

As an organization, we speak climate truth to power, and we always treat our visitors and members as adults who can process often painful facts. We candidly speak climate truth to power also because there is no time left to hide or sugar-cote the facts surrounding the runaway global heating emergency.

Our website pages offer an appropriate, proportional, and rational hope that we can still fix the climate and save humanity from the climate's worst possible extinction possibilities. We base this measured hope solely upon current climate science and advanced dialectical metasystemic analysis processes. 

We are the only non-profit think tank telling the whole and unvarnished truth on how bad the runaway global warming extinction emergency will become and preparing individuals, businesses, and nations for the unavoidable, soon-arriving climate and global heating consequences.

All the runaway global heating and climate change remedial actions we recommend are provided on a self-motivated, self-organized, and self-directed, Do-It-Yourself (DIY) basis. Although we will answer climate questions and provide encouragement through our member support system, you are responsible for spreading the word and telling others about this website's climate information and tools. Responsibility for the preparations, adaptations, and global heating remedial actions necessary to protect yourself, your loved ones, and your business from what is coming remains as it should, exclusively with you.

 

 

13. How Our Research, Review, and Dialectical Meta-Systemic Analysis Processes are Unique 

Volunteers should know a little bit about how we do climate and global warming analysis.

Using the principles of system theory and dialectical meta-systemic thinking applied to the climate and global warming as a complex adaptive system composed of many systems and subsystems (ocean temperature and acidification, forests, soils, atmosphere, glaciers, sea ice, and ice shelves, ocean currents and the jet stream, tundra and snowpack conditions), we review and then analyze current and past climate change research and public climate summaries for:

1. errors, 

2. omissions, 

3. previously unrecognized positive connections or negative patterns in or between climate studies and the climate's systems and subsystems,

4. unseen interconnections or consequence connections within and between climate studies and the climate's systems and subsystems,

5. the unseen or hidden politicization, censorship, or the watering down of climate science by governmental agencies or other types of agents or lobbyists in public climate summary reports. 

The problems in 1-5 above can significantly affect the validity of current and future statements or positions concerning climate consequence timetables or the frequency, severity, and scale of climate consequences. Using system theory and dialectical metasystemic thinking applied to the climate as a complex adaptive system, we also review research papers and public statements on the climate for:

1. discernable or hidden biases, and

2. undeclared financial or other conflicts of interest.

The above two problems have become more prevalent and have resulted in significantly underestimated negative climate consequences in public climate summaries and statements. Climate think tanks, individuals or groups operating as unknown fossil fuel lobbyists, and climate researchers funded by the fossil fuel-related industries have become the biggest offenders in this area. 

Instead of our analyzing only one area of specialized climate studies like the oceans, glaciers, ice and snow packs, planetary temperature history, water vapor, soils, forests, or greenhouse gas factors on temperature and the atmosphere, we analyze climate research on how it holistically applies and interrelates to all different areas within and between the climate's interrelated, interconnected, and interdependent systems and subsystems. 

Using the tools of dialectical metasystemic thinking, we examine climate studies, their positions, and the related interactions of the climate system and subsystems through 28 different dialectical analysis perspectives and lenses. This allows us also to see, consider and value natural or human counteractions that may occur in response to the various primary and secondary consequences of climate change and global heating.

After that extensive analysis, we make climate consequence severity and time frame predictions and remedial recommendations for the correct global fossil fuel reduction amounts to minimize human loss and suffering. Our final analysis, forecasts, and recommendations always include all needed adjustments to compensate for any problems, errors, omissions, underestimation, or politicization which we discover in current climate research or summaries. Click here to see the many errors, underestimation, and politicization we found in a major recognized source of global climate research and recommendations. 

Unlike many other climate change think tanks, we do provide prioritized, critical-path, and deadline-driven solutions to the climate change emergency. These solutions are based upon accurate global fossil fuel reduction targets and avoiding the most dangerous climate tipping points and climate feedbacks deadlines that we currently face. 

Job One for Humanity is currently helping expose the current intense politicization of climate science. This intense politicization of science by the media, governments, and even the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) acts to critically underestimate our actual and current climate consequences, timeframes, remedies, and condition.

Unexpectedly, our independent climate change analysis has turned us into reluctant whistleblowers exposing how popular and politicized climate data has been distorted to serve the hidden interests of those who gain financially (or in other ways) from the ongoing global use of fossil fuels and hiding the real danger the public faces from the runaway global heating extinction emergency.

Please note that our education materials, because of their serious and adult nature, are not meant for adolescents under 16!

Our Advisory Board

14. About the Mission and Goals of Job One for Humanity

Click here to see our current mission and goals.