{"id":54430,"date":"2016-11-10T19:56:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=54430"},"modified":"2016-11-10T19:56:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T19:56:00","slug":"climate-change-may-be-escalating-so-fast-it-could-be-game-over-scientists-warn-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/climate-change-may-be-escalating-so-fast-it-could-be-game-over-scientists-warn-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change May Be Escalating So Fast It Could Be &#8216;Game over&#8217;, Scientists Warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a vision of a future so apocalyptic that it is hard to even imagine.<\/p>\n<p>But, if leading scientists writing in one of the most respected academic journals are right, planet Earth could be on course for global warming of more than seven degrees Celsius within a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>And that, according to one of the world&rsquo;s most renowned climatologists, could be &ldquo;game over&rdquo; &ndash; particularly given the imminent presence of climate change denier Donald Trump in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have long tried to work out how the climate will react over the coming decades to the greenhouse gases humans are pumping into the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>According to the current best estimate, by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), if humans carry on with a &ldquo;business as usual&rdquo; approach using large amounts of fossil fuels, the Earth&rsquo;s average temperature will rise by between 2.6 and 4.8 degrees above pre-industrial levels by 2100.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a vision of a future so apocalyptic that it is hard to even imagine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1012,1031],"tags":[3,9],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - 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