PHOENIX — It’s been 40 years since the First World Climate Conference and more than 30 years since the first Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, yet climate change continues unabated. A new paper seeks to amplify the alarm.
A global coalition of more than 11,000 scientists from 153 countries — 16 of them from Arizona universities — has issued a " warning of climate emergency" in the journal BioScience.
The article says "untold human suffering" will occur unless humans make deep and lasting shifts in their activities.
Among the recommendations: massive energy conservation and reduction in fossil fuels and short-lived pollutants like methane and soot; ecosystem restoration to expand carbon sequestration; a shift away from animal product consumption; conversion to a carbon-free economy; and stabilization of global population.
