Article 6DAR0 We warned you about this climate emergency. Now it’s here | Peter Kalmus

We warned you about this climate emergency. Now it’s here | Peter Kalmus

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Peter Kalmus
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Biden had the last opportunity of any president to keep the world under 1.5C of heating. Instead he is squandering time we do not have

We've passed into a ferocious new phase of global heating with much worse to come. Biden must declare a climate emergency.

I'm terrified by what's being done to our planet. I'm also fighting to stop it. You, too, should be afraid while also taking the strongest action you can take. There has never been a summer like this in recorded history: shocking ocean heat, deadly land heat, unprecedented fires and smoke, sea ice melting faster than we've ever seen or thought possible. I've dreaded this depth of Earth breakdown for almost two decades, and, like many of my colleagues, I've been trying to warn you. As hard as I could. Now it's here.

Peter Kalmus is a climate scientist and author of Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution

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