Antarctic researchers plead for dramatic cuts in climate emissions after emergency summit on alarming fall in sea ice extent around the frozen continent; Fall seven deviations from the mean
Thank you to these scientists for speaking out on behalf of the beautiful world humans are destroying. When seeing our natural world with clarity is your day job you feel this terrible degradation to the core - there is no pretending it doesn't exist and no escaping the knowledge of the consequences it will trigger ready or not. No relief to be gained via talking up imaginary solutions and fake actions with an eye on some mythical result come 2030 or 2050 by doing more of the same.
Besides being an informative report of their ongoing research, it was a very affecting style of reporting their findings and conclusions. As regards the later I appreciated the remarks about his children and grandchildren. Like the professor I feel for all our children and it brought unexpected tears to see such worries confirmed. I'm also grateful for the absence of any 'value free' bullshit about scientific evidence. Their is no absolute certainty but the probable truth about the consequences of CC should not only worry us all, but move all of us,
including our political leaders and profiteering oligarchs to act urgently and effective NOW!
The language of science can be illuminating, but also at times, it obscures the full truth, especially the bit that includes an emotional reckoning. Increasingly scientists like these are coming out from behind their data in a desperate effort to impress upon us the full meaning of their results because we don't seem to be getting it. It's often an uncomfortable and very exposed place for them. I think it honours that effort to report their words about the human impact of their work in full. It says as much about the truth of it as the data, perhaps more.
Thank you to these scientists for speaking out on behalf of the beautiful world humans are destroying. When seeing our natural world with clarity is your day job you feel this terrible degradation to the core - there is no pretending it doesn't exist and no escaping the knowledge of the consequences it will trigger ready or not. No relief to be gained via talking up imaginary solutions and fake actions with an eye on some mythical result come 2030 or 2050 by doing more of the same.
Besides being an informative report of their ongoing research, it was a very affecting style of reporting their findings and conclusions. As regards the later I appreciated the remarks about his children and grandchildren. Like the professor I feel for all our children and it brought unexpected tears to see such worries confirmed. I'm also grateful for the absence of any 'value free' bullshit about scientific evidence. Their is no absolute certainty but the probable truth about the consequences of CC should not only worry us all, but move all of us,
including our political leaders and profiteering oligarchs to act urgently and effective NOW!
The language of science can be illuminating, but also at times, it obscures the full truth, especially the bit that includes an emotional reckoning. Increasingly scientists like these are coming out from behind their data in a desperate effort to impress upon us the full meaning of their results because we don't seem to be getting it. It's often an uncomfortable and very exposed place for them. I think it honours that effort to report their words about the human impact of their work in full. It says as much about the truth of it as the data, perhaps more.
Beautifully said, thank you Cathrine!
Well said, Catherine. kia ora rā.