{"id":6414,"date":"2019-11-06T16:05:06","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T13:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6414"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:40","slug":"scientists-foresee-untold-suffering-another-climate-record-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/06\/scientists-foresee-untold-suffering-another-climate-record-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Foresee &#8216;Untold Suffering&#8217;, Another Climate Record Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By AFP<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 11,000 scientists warned Tuesday of &#8220;untold\nsuffering&#8221; due to global warming, even as another team said Paris\ncarbon-cutting pledges are &#8220;too little, too late&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The European Union, meanwhile, confirmed that last month was\nthe warmest October ever registered, fast on heels of a record September and\nthe hottest month ever in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three-quarters of national commitments under the Paris\nclimate accord to curb greenhouse gases will not even slow the accelerating\npace of global warming, according to a report from five senior scientists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sobering assessment came a day after President Donald\nTrump formally notified the United Nations of the US withdrawal from the 2015\nParis climate pact, triggering concerns of how other nations might react.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;With few exceptions, the pledges of rich, middle-income\nand poor nations are insufficient to address climate change,&#8221; said Robert\nWatson, who chaired both the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change\n(IPCC) and the UN&#8217;s science body for biodiversity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;As they stand, the pledges are far too little, too\nlate.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In parallel, more than 11,000 scientists sounded a five-bell\nalarm in the peer-reviewed journal BioScience, noting that the world had failed\nto act on global warming despite the accumulation of evidence over 30 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/business\/article\/2001348300\/scientists-foresee-untold-suffering-another-climate-record-falls\">Read\nmore\u2026<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By AFP More than 11,000 scientists warned Tuesday of &#8220;untold suffering&#8221; due to global warming, even as another team said Paris carbon-cutting pledges are &#8220;too little, too late&#8221;. The European&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}