By Erin Ross
Thousands of children, students, and citizens from around Portland rallied as a part of the Portland climate strike in effort to fight climate change.
It’s rare for scientists (click here) to call something a clear and unequivocal fact. But that’s exactly what a group of 11,258 scientists from around the globe are saying in a new paper.
“Earth is facing a climate emergency,” they wrote, “and scientists have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any catastrophic threat.”
It’s the first time such a large group of scientists has made such stark warnings.
The statement, spearheaded by Oregon State University scientists William J Ripple and Christopher Wolf, was published Tuesday in the journal BioScience, 40 years to the day after the first World Climate Conference in Geneva in 1979. They argue that scientists have been warning about climate change ever since, but greenhouse gas emissions are still rising.
“Climate change has arrived and is accelerating faster than many scientists expected,” Ripple said in a press release....
