Pierre Cochet-Weinandt

  • commented on Contact 2023-06-30 06:24:39 -0700
    I assume that you read the abstract from NASA of James Hansen’s new report titled “Global Warming in the Pipeline.” Here it is:

    “Improved knowledge of glacial-to-interglacial global temperature change implies that fast-feedback equilibrium climate sensitivity is at least ∼4°C for doubled CO2 (2×CO2), with likely range 3.5-5.5°C. Greenhouse gas (GHG) climate forcing is 4.1 W/m2 larger in 2021 than in 1750, equivalent to 2%times$CO2 forcing. Global warming in the pipeline is greater than prior estimates. Eventual global warming due to today’s GHG forcing alone — after slow feedbacks operate — is about 10°C. Human-made aerosols are a major climate forcing, mainly via their effect on clouds. We infer from paleoclimate data that aerosol cooling offset GHG warming for several millennia as civilization developed. A hinge-point in global warming occurred in 1970 as increased GHG warming outpaced aerosol cooling, leading to global warming of 0.18°C per decade. Aerosol cooling is larger than estimated in the current IPCC report, but it has declined since 2010 because of aerosol reductions in China and shipping. Without unprecedented global actions to reduce GHG growth, 2010 could be another hinge point, with global warming in following decades 50-100% greater than in the prior 40 years. The enormity of consequences of warming in the pipeline demands a new approach addressing legacy and future emissions. The essential requirement to “save” young people and future generations is return to Holocene-level global temperature."

    Job One for Humanity had a book review section, comprising climate fiction books. I read Eat the Moon on your advice. I believe that fiction literature is a very appropriate medium to reach a larger public, touching the emotions and addressing the personal consequences of global warming in real life. I wrote such a book, Mona, under the name Adam Flint, which is published on Amazon. I would gladly send you the book for your review. More generally, and apart from my own book, I think that it is essential to break the escapist loop modern fiction literature has locked itself in (mostly due to the policy of the “Big Five” publishers).

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