Monday, October 12, 2015

The most pessimistic climate change scientist has had a sudden change of heart | Environment | The Independent

The most pessimistic climate change scientist has had a sudden change of heart | Environment

The New Forest; it is feared that Britain’s forests could suffer a similar fate to woodlands in much of the US, where vast stands of trees have been wiped out by beetles

 | The Independent: "The most pessimistic climate change scientist has had a sudden change of heart
Johan Rockström, who shocked the world with a bleak prediction in 2009, has had a dramatic change of heart

Mr Rockstrom has added deforestation to a list of “planetary boundaries” in the danger zone Getty
The world has a better chance of saving itself from catastrophic global warming now than at any time over the past two decades, according to the scientist behind some of the most alarming predictions ever made for the planet’s future.

Johan Rockström shocked environmentalists in 2009 when he identified nine categories of Nature that were essential for life as we know it, and warned that we had already crossed into dangerous territory on three of them – including climate change.






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