Climate change risks extinction
Kelly McNamara ’23, October 28, “Life on Earth under 'existential threat': climate scientists,” PHYS.ORG, accessed July 9, 2024, https://phys.org/news/2023-10-life-earth-existential-threat-climate.html
Climate change poses an "existential threat" to life on Earth, prominent scientists warned Tuesday, in an assessment on this year's avalanche of heat records and weather extremes that they said are hitting more ferociously than expected.
With expectations that 2023 will be the hottest year on record, regions across the planet have been scorched by deadly heat waves.
Others have been hit by floods, or in some cases, have suffered both extremes in quick succession.
"The truth is that we are shocked by the ferocity of the extreme weather events in 2023. We are afraid of the uncharted territory that we have now entered," said an international coalition of authors in a new report published in the journal BioScience.
Their stark assessment: "Life on planet Earth is under siege".