#SchellnHuber 37 Schellnhuber “we're putting our kids onto a global school bus that will with 98% probability end in a deadly crash." @coderedearth.bsky.social https://twitter.com/CodeRedEarth/status/1574024321202266113 #Hansen 250 4 https://twitter.com/bratananium/status/1574714609818288131 https://bsky.app/profile/thomas-boettcher.bsky.social/post/3mgg53n3uhk27
![Passing the point of no return
(Credit: Looney Tunes featuring Wile E. Coyote. © Warner Bros.)
Runaway climate has a new meaning: a climate system pushed beyond the point of no return, when devastating consequences for young people are locked in, impossible to avoid. Below is the latest draft of Chapter 10 of Sophie’s Planet, which will be published in Green Energy Times. For context, it includes the last paragraph of Chapter 9 of Sophie’s Planet.
Meanwhile, as our instrument for the Venus mission was being built, we became involved in investigations of changes in our own planet’s atmosphere. Eventually, our desire to understand those changes overwhelmed our interest in other planets. However, before leaving the planets, let us see what the Goldilocks planets can tell us. That topic is addressed in my first book, Storms of My Grandchildren,[1] where I stumbled and did not distinguish between the Venus Syndrome and runaway climate. For the sake of a coherent scientific explanation, in the next chapter I commit three writer’s sins by: (1) disclosing an event out of chronological order, (2) showing a graph, and (3) including a simple equation. You may choose to skip lightly over a chapter heavy in technical science. However, runaway climate has a new meaning: a climate system pushed beyond the point of no return, with devastating, unavoidable consequences. We must learn from lessons of the past to avoid handing young people a situation out of their control.
https://jimehansen.substack.com/p/runaway-climate-the-point-of-no-return](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3oowqnx3nhaqiw4yoxyprl46/bafkreiaqmgtsbszuicdyt7psvxmn3jay5flsjmcbkpnd6s45ac3ybwcjxi)
Passing the point of no return (Credit: Looney Tunes featuring Wile E. Coyote. © Warner Bros.) Runaway climate has a new meaning: a climate system pushed beyond the point of no return, when devastating consequences for young people are locked in, impossible to avoid. Below is the latest draft of Chapter 10 of Sophie’s Planet, which will be published in Green Energy Times. For context, it includes the last paragraph of Chapter 9 of Sophie’s Planet. Meanwhile, as our instrument for the Venus mission was being built, we became involved in investigations of changes in our own planet’s atmosphere. Eventually, our desire to understand those changes overwhelmed our interest in other planets. However, before leaving the planets, let us see what the Goldilocks planets can tell us. That topic is addressed in my first book, Storms of My Grandchildren,[1] where I stumbled and did not distinguish between the Venus Syndrome and runaway climate. For the sake of a coherent scientific explanation, in the next chapter I commit three writer’s sins by: (1) disclosing an event out of chronological order, (2) showing a graph, and (3) including a simple equation. You may choose to skip lightly over a chapter heavy in technical science. However, runaway climate has a new meaning: a climate system pushed beyond the point of no return, with devastating, unavoidable consequences. We must learn from lessons of the past to avoid handing young people a situation out of their control. https://jimehansen.substack.com/p/runaway-climate-the-point-of-no-return
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