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=====Journalists, you need to start taking the climate crisis seriously!===== | |||
<embed>https://medium.com/@mail_30953/journalists-you-need-to-start-taking-the-climate-crisis-seriously-6658934eeb96</embed> | |||
Sara Schurmann Sept 6 2020 | |||
If we keep up today’s emission levels, we will have used up the remaining carbon budget within approximately 10 years. So we have fewer than 10 years to limit global warming to less than 1.5° C above pre-industrial levels. That means 10 years during which our politicians, economists and the rest of society have to take decisive action and halve CO2 emissions worldwide. | |||
Journalists have read and heard sentences like these hundreds of times. Many of us have written and said them ourselves. But too few of us actually seem to understand what they mean. Or we wouldn’t let politicians and industry leaders get away with ignoring them for years. | |||
=====The Thinking Error at the Root of Science Denial===== | =====The Thinking Error at the Root of Science Denial===== | ||
<embed>https://theconversation.com/the-thinking-error-at-the-root-of-science-denial-96099</embed> The Conversation 11/13/2019 | <embed>https://theconversation.com/the-thinking-error-at-the-root-of-science-denial-96099</embed> The Conversation 11/13/2019 | ||
