In the course of a single year, University of Maine climate scientist Jacquelyn Gill lost both her mother and her stepfather. She struggled with infertility, then during research in the Arctic, she developed embolisms in both lungs, was transferred to an intensive care unit in Siberia and nearly died. She was airlifted back home and later had a hysterectomy. Then the pandemic hit.
Hope and optimism often blossom in the experts toiling in the gloomy fields of global warming,COVID-19 and Alzheimer's disease. "I do not wish to sound naive in choosing to be the `realistic optimist,' but the alternative to being the realistic optimist is either to hold one's ears and wait for doomsday or to party while the orchestra of the Titanic plays," Andersen said. "I do not subscribe to either."
"I don't think it's depressing. I don't think it's gloomy. It's difficult. It's challenging," Petersen said. But "we're so much better off today than five years ago, 10 years ago." "I think maybe that's helped stave off some of this hopelessness," she said. "I go to a scientific meeting and I look around at the thousands of scientists that are working on this. And I'm like `Yeah, we're doing this."'
"I have seen shifts on other critical environmental issues such as banning of toxic material, better air quality standards, the repair of the ozone hole, the phase-out of leaded petrol and much more," Andersen said. "I know that hard work, underpinned by science, underpinned by strong policy and yes, underpinned by multilateral and activist action, can lead to change."
What's more, Gill and several others said, the science tells them that it is not game over for Earth.
How climate scientists keep their jobs and funding is more like it
It’s crazy to think that people are ignoring common sense, environmental scientists and their own eyes, just to avoid making any changes.
If these scientists believe their own alarmism their hope is unjustified. CO2 emissions are rising & will for decades as China, India & Africa build more coal-fired plants to fuel their develpmnt. They'd have reason for hope if they accepted that CO2 has little impact on climate.
Models and simulations help with guessing outcomes, but they cannot be used to make accurate predictions about complex systems. We have hope because of our inability to predict the future with certainty. 'Climate scientists' have hope because they don't believe their predictions
The 5-7 positive loops like melting permafrost releasing methane 25x worse than CO2, thawing polar caps and smaller snow packs reflecting less energy, massive forest fires etc etc are all getting worse and make anything we do mute. There is nothing we can do.
The planet is warming due to our over use of fossil fuels and the excess of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Summers everywhere are hotter than ever and intense weather events are increasing. We're so screwed.
Prove it on the 1000 year scale
BLAH BLAH F🖕CKING BLAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CTV was once a non biased source of information but sadly has become a propaganda machine for 'climate change'. There are credible scientists with different opinions - maybe just once we could hear about it!?! dobetter
Wow, I must have missed something. What is the damage? I must have missed something.
We've been hammered by their propaganda for a very long time. They seem to target children, which is revealing about the amount of respect for the intelligence of their intended audience. It also highlights that they know adults won't take them seriously.
Keep hope alive? Of ten issues to be worried about, climate change is number 11.
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