WORLD SCIENTISTS WARNING TO HUMANITY:
All scientists, citizens, companies and organizations are invited to sign/endorse the articles’ recommendations, and help change civilization’s current trajectory.
November 5, 2019
by Charles Gregoire
Approximately 2 years after the World Scientists' Warning to Humanity (2nd Notice) was released in 2017 an additional warning in the form of the "World Scientists's Warning of a Climate . . .
June 18, 2019
by Heidi Brault
This additional alert from the Alliance of World Scientists (AWS) examines the critical role that microorganisms play in the biological factors of climate change. The way in which microorganisms respond . . .
November 13, 2017
by Stuart Scott
On its 25th anniversary, a group of scientists looked back at that first warning to evaluate humanity’s response. What they found was most distressing. With the exception of curtailing depletion . . .
December 1, 1992
by Stuart Scott
Twenty-five years ago, the Union of Concerned Scientists in Washington, D.C. along with over 1,700 scientists from around the world, including the majority of then-living Nobel laureates in the sciences, . . .
February 27, 2021
by Usha Alexander
My sketch of a future world is premised upon geophysical and biospheric changes that are already well underway. And while there are, of course, uncertainties about the future, what we . . .
February 25, 2021
by Usha Alexander
The future world will be more barren than the one we’ve known, traveled by fewer animals, both in kind and in number. Fewer birds making a ruckus in the treetops. . . .
February 23, 2021
by Usha Alexander
One evening some years ago, I noticed that something about our back patio light looked ... unnatural, though I couldn’t say just what about it was odd. Only weeks later . . .
February 22, 2021
by Usha Alexander
In the late fifteenth century, European seafarers began searching for what they called the “Northwest Passage,” a fabled route across the Arctic Ocean, which would allow them to sail northward . . .
February 10, 2021
by Stephen Kwakye
You may have a front row seat in witnessing the breakdown of the greatest societies that have ever existed in history. This is truly a one in a million spectacle . . .
February 7, 2021
by Nathan Jackson
I wanted to thank you for your consistent loyalty to speaking the truth. It's been a huge help to those of us trying to follow the same path. I'm sorry . . .
January 25, 2021
by Usha Alexander
As I’ve discussed in previous essays in this series, after the last glacial age loosened its grip and the climate regime stabilized into the Holocene, many of our ancestors were . . .
January 22, 2021
by Usha Alexander
Our world is thick with stories. Gods. Devils. The Invisible Hand of the Market. Original Sin and Salvation. Karma and Kali Yuga. Progress and Liberty. The Enlightenment. Manifest Destinies. Nationalism. . . .
January 19, 2021
by Usha Alexander
For the past few years, I’ve been taking a fairly deep dive into attempting to understand the physical and ecological changes occurring on our planet and how these will affect . . .
January 12, 2021
by Dr. Peter Wadhams
It is known that the methane level in the atmosphere is a cumulative product of many sources, including wholly natural sources (e.g. termite mounds); natural sources enhanced by Man’s interference . . .
January 1, 2021
by Usha Alexander
In our contemporary superhero realms, the greatest threats against the world are supervillains, often recognizable as a mythic archetype called the Trickster. These kinds of supervillains personify chaos, or – . . .
December 29, 2020
by Usha Alexander
The earliest hero whose story survives in writing is Gilgamesh, of Bronze age Mesopotamia. As a king of the Sumerian city-state, Gilgamesh was hailed a hero not because he was . . .
December 25, 2020
by Dr. Peter Wadhams
Methane is one of the most important greenhouse gases, second only to carbon dioxide in its heating effect, though far more potent, molecule for molecule. Its instantaneous global warming potential . . .
December 24, 2020
by Usha Alexander
In Classical Greek mythology, Thanatos was Death. As a minor god who got little press in the surviving tales, he appears in the play, as something of a functionary, dutifully . . .
December 20, 2020
by Kent Deal
On Addressing the Deconstruction of Deep Adaptation [1] and the Denial That Collapse Is Inevitable by Kent Deal Let me assume some pessimism can be directed towards the chances of . . .
November 30, 2020
by Usha Alexander
As I intimated at the start, this trajectory we’ve ultimately followed as a global civilization—toward increasing inequity, greater despoliation of the commons, and the eradication or oppressive control of natural . . .
November 27, 2020
by Usha Alexander
The first farmers we know of in the world lived in the eastern Mediterranean region less than ten thousand years ago. They became farmers by slow degrees, through a progression . . .
November 23, 2020
by Usha Alexander
High in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta of northern Colombia, the Kogi people peaceably live and farm. Having isolated themselves in nearly inaccessible mountain hamlets for five hundred years, . . .
October 15, 2020
by Usha Alexander
Tabea Bakeua lives in Kiribati, a North Pacific atoll nation. Her country is likely to be the first to disappear completely under the rising seas within a few decades. Asked . . .
October 9, 2020
by Brian McGavin
This documentary, which Attenborough describes as his “Witness Testament and vision for the future", goes further than his BBC program "Extinction - The Facts", which was broadcast last month, and . . .
September 29, 2020
by Ken Pentel
The Danger of Using the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Relation to Human Migration from Rural to Urban Areas and How the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) Can Remedy This. The . . .
September 24, 2020
by Usha Alexander
At the beginning our story—paraphrased from an origin story remembered by a Creed elder — two figures are walking along the clouds. They’ve been walking long and far. Looking down . . .
September 21, 2020
by Stuart Scott
Certain sayings earn a place in human culture beyond what one would expect. “Houston, we have a problem” is such a saying. Uttered by Jim Lovell, commander of the Apollo . . .
September 17, 2020
by Usha Alexander
When I was a kid, I used to wonder about the possibility that the planet could slip back into an ice age. I grew up in the Rocky Mountain region . . .
ScientistsWarning.TV Media Advisories
December 9, 2018
Youtube Video
Greta Thunberg is joined by her father Svante to talk about her path from an unknown Swedish school girl to an internationally recognized climate leader. If governments don't give a . . .
December 18, 2020
Youtube Video
Program Video Link A Climate Emergency is upon us. Pandemics and security breaches pale in comparison in terms of danger to humanity and life on Earth. We will either act . . .
October 15, 2020
Youtube Video
This is the first of several conversations to come on what is without exaggeration the greatest threat to Humanity and all of Life on Earth - the risk of radioactive . . .
December 13, 2019
Media Advisory
Stuart will preview and discuss the content of a video produced by Old Dog Documentaries and available on Vimeo but now also available on ScientistsWarning.TV called "Rollbacks, An Assault Against . . .
December 12, 2019
Media Advisory
'Climate Restoration' is the proverbial 'third leg of the stool' along with mitigation and adaptation. We need to get our heads around the idea that it's not enough to aim . . .
December 11, 2019
Media Advisory
The climate negotiations are focusing on 'mitigation', that is, reducing society's carbon emissions, and adaptation, adjusting to the climate change that cannot be avoided. However, the restoration of a safe . . .
December 10, 2019
Media Advisory
An in-depth exploration and explanation of how our current economic systems are responsible for our climate crisis. Where: Press Conference Room Mocha, COP25, Madrid, Spain When: Tuesday, December 10, 15:00 . . .
December 9, 2019
Media Advisory
Who’s to blame ᠆ what’s the solution? An intergenerational discussion about the climate crisis between a Baby Boomer and Generation Y. Where: Press Conference Room Mocha, COP25, Madrid, Spain When: . . .
December 7, 2019
Media Advisory
A discussion with Dr. Moomaw, leading climate scientist, will speak on what to expect in the next decade and what humanity must do to prevent outright climate catastrophe. Where: Press . . .
December 6, 2019
Media Advisory
Overpopulation of humanity is the main driver in the climate crisis. Shragg, Tal and Abegão discuss the implications and the need to bring humanity to scale with the rest of . . .
December 5, 2019
Media Advisory
Dan Galpern will talk about what it will take to win, and what ‘winning’ means in terms of dangerous climate change. The role of fossil fuel companies has been ignored . . .
December 4, 2019
Media Advisory
Biodiversity is collapsing, Indigenous communities are shrinking, and resources such as food and water are ever more scarce. The great loss to our planet has one common denominator - runaway . . .
December 3, 2019
Media Advisory
James Hansen is widely regarded as the father of climate change awareness and was the Director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies for 32 years. He famously said when . . .
December 2, 2019
Media Advisory
A few of the most glaring villains of our time will make a ‘stand-out appearance’ in this presentation entitled ‘Villains and Heroes.’ Stuart will discuss a few of those who’ve . . .
We Are Being Warned
Humanity is on a collision course with Nature.
A damaged Nature will survive. We may not.
We must change course to avert an ecological disaster.
Atmosphere
Air pollution is the release of substances into the air that are detrimental...
read more...Clean Water
Today fully one-sixth of the world’s human population lacks access to clean drinking...
read more...Oceans
Human activities are threatening the health of the world's oceans. More than 80...
read more...Forests
Deforestation is clearing Earth's forests on a massive scale, often resulting in damage...
read more...Biodiversity
World Wildlife Foundation estimates 60% of global biodiversity loss results from clearing land...
read more...Population
Unsustainable growth Until the early 19th century, fewer than a billion people lived...
read more...Climate
Climate change has already begun to transform life on Earth. Without action, the impacts of...
read more...Economic Growth
Infinite Growth on a Finite Planet “Global civilization has an operating system. It...
read more...We Must Take Action
Humanity is on a collision course with nature.
We must take action if we are to survive.
Activism and Civil Disobedience
Activism and Civil Disobedience Now more than ever, citizens of the world must take action regarding the climate crisis. Activism is...
read more...Legal Remedies
Have you heard of anyone going to court to obtain protection from climate change impacts? Or to sue a company...
read more...Adopt a Plant Rich Diet
If you're looking for something you can do starting immediately that will have the biggest most profound impact on the...
read more...Fly Less
Flying is bad for the environment and a major driver of climate change. The number of flights is forecast to...
read more...Distinguish Needs and Wants
"Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter," is a quote from Mahatma Gandhi that quite aptly...
read more...Regard All Life as Sacred
Regard All Life as Sacred Regard all life as sacred because that is what sustains us on this planet. There...
read more...Subscribe to The Daily Climate
The Daily Climate is an independent media organization working to increase public understanding of climate change, including its scope and...
read more...The Alliance Of World Scientists
The Alliance of World Scientists (AWS) is a new international assembly of scientists, which is independent of both governmental and non-governmental organizations and corporations. It asserts that in order to prevent widespread misery caused by catastrophic damage to the biosphere,...
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