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An international coalition of climate scientists says in a published paper that the Earth’s vital signs have worsened beyond anything humans have yet seen, to the point that life on the planet is imperiled.
William Ripple, a distinguished professor in the Oregon State University College of Forestry, and former OSU postdoctoral researcher Christopher Wolf are the lead authors of the report, and 10 other U.S. and global scientists are co-authors.
There is a potential collapse of natural and socioeconomic systems and a world with unbearable heat and shortages of food and freshwater, according to one OSU researcher.
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The researchers note an extraordinary Canadian wildfire season that produced unprecedented carbon dioxide emissions.
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The new data illustrates that many climate-related records were broken by “enormous margins” in 2023, particularly those relating to ocean temperatures and sea ice.
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What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.