In February 2016, global temperatures spiked to well over 1.5°C above pre-industrial times, just weeks after the Paris Climate Agreement set an aim of not exceeding that benchmark. Climate scientists say that we are facing a climate emergency, with the future of ecosystems and human civilization hanging in the balance. Scientists are expressing increasingly alarm that the problems are occurring much faster than their most effective models have predicted. We are experiencing light weight effects of of early stage climate change on a global basis, and these effects are exceeding response capacity everywhere. Declaring a climate emergency and initiating a society-wide mobilization at a scale and speed not seen since the WW II is required to counter this existential threat to humanity.
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