Boogying our way to doomsday: Cataloging the 'file of shame' of broken climate promises

Screenshots from documents posted on YouTube\

Headline  Wisconsin State Journal, 4/4/2022

Temperatures on Earth will shoot past a key danger point unless greenhouse gas emissions fall faster than countries have committed, the world's top body of climate scientists said Monday, warning of the consequences of inaction but also noting hopeful signs of progress. 

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change revealed "a litany of broken climate promises" by governments and corporations, accusing them of stoking global warming by clinging to harmful fossil fuels. 

"It is a file of shame, cataloguing the empty pledges that put us firmly on track towards an unlivable world," he said.

1/16/2020 update, "Doin' the Stomp!", starts here.

 

2019 Was the Second-Hottest Year Ever, Closing Out the Warmest Decade.  (The New York Times, 1/15/2020)

“These trends are the footprints of human activity stomping on the atmosphere,” said Gavin A. Schmidt, director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, which conducted the NASA analysis. “We know that this has been driven by human activities.”

10 hottest 

1.         2016

2.         2019

3.         2015

4.         2017

5.         2018

6.         2015

7.         2010

8.         2005

9.         2011

10.         2009

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