Are Worst-Case Climate Scenarios Less Likely, as Media Reports of a New Scientific Paper Suggest?
By David Spratt, Climate Code Red
Reading the media reporting of a new scientific paper released on 22 July, it was easy to get the impression that some “worse-case” climate warming possibilities are now off the agenda. “So this is good news?” a friend emailed. “No” was my answer.
As Warming Approaches 1.5°C, Talk of a Carbon Budget for the Paris Targets is Delusional
By David Spratt, Climate Code Red
There's a lot of delusional talk about how much "carbon budget" (or new emissions) are allowable that would still keep global heating to the Paris target of 1.5 degrees Celsius (°C).
Covid-19 Climate Lessons
By David Spratt, Climate Code Red
Climate change will increase the geographic range of infectious diseases and air pollution increases susceptibility to respiratory illness. The pandemic emergency teaches us valuable lessons about how to respond to the climate emergency
Leading Climate Researchers: We Are in a Climate Emergency, Facing Existential Risks
By David Spratt, Climate Code Red
Last week a new paper in Nature caused a stir and world-wide headlines, and for good reason. “Climate tipping points - too risky to bet against” by Lenton, Rockstrom, Gaffney, Rahmstrof, Richardson, Steffen and Schellnhuber look at the “evidence on the threat of exceeding (climate system) tipping points, and whether we still have any control over them” because this “helps to define that we are in a climate emergency.”
Climate Emergency (1): “Something has Shifted”
By David Spratt, Climate Code Red
Welcome to this “rough guide” blog series on the climate emergency and climate emergency campaigning. This series looks at some of the questions frequently asked about the topic: what does the science say, what is an emergency, does the climate crisis fit the bill, what can councils do, how can we talk about it, what needs to be done, what about business, can the political system deal with an issue this big? And many more.
We must Mobilise for the Climate Emergency like we Do in Wartime. Where is the Climate Minister?
By Ian Dunlop, David Spratt, The Guardian blog
Littleproud arguably has the most crucial and important role in cabinet. How to convince his colleagues of the real climate disasters which now confront this country, and particularly the agricultural sector, unless we rapidly move away from our fossil fuel past.
“Climate Emergency”: Evolution of a Global Campaign
By David Spratt, Climate Code Red
In a matter of months, the language of climate emergency has exploded into public space in a spectacular way, with national, regional and governments adopting the term.
Existential risk, Neoliberalism and UN Climate Policymaking
By David Spratt, Climate Code Red
International climate policymaking has failed to avoid a path of catastrophic global warming. Two often-overlooked causes of this failure are how climate-science knowledge has been produced and utilised by the United Nation’s twin climate bodies and how those organisations function.