{"id":10441,"date":"2017-11-13T07:45:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T15:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/11\/13\/news-4214\/"},"modified":"2017-11-13T07:45:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T15:45:02","slug":"news-4214","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/11\/13\/news-4214\/","title":{"rendered":"15,000 Scientists From 184 Countries Are Warning Humankind We Are Screwed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Credit to Author: Stephen Leahy| Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 15:00:00 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

More than 15,000 scientists from 184 countries warn the evidence is clear: Current and future human health and wellbeing are at serious risk from climate change, deforestation, loss of access to freshwater, species extinctions, and human population growth. <\/p>\n

Eminent scientists Jane Goodall, E.O. Wilson, and James Hansen are among those who have cosigned the warning, published Monday in the journal BioScience<\/i>. The article, titled \u201cWorld Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice<\/a>,\u201d has 15,372 signatories in total, from a range of scientific disciplines. It is thought to be the largest-ever formal support by scientists for a journal article. <\/p>\n

The \u201cSecond Notice\u201d article updates the original \u201cWorld Scientists’ Warning to Humanity<\/a>\u201d document released in 1992, 25 years ago this month. Signed by 1700 scientists, including most of the living Nobel Prize science winners, it warned that human impacts on the environment were putting \u201cat serious risk the future that we wish for human society\u201d and detailed several worrisome trends. <\/p>\n

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Jane Goodall. Image: Urban Explorer Hamburg\/Flickr<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cWe did the update because we wanted to let the public know where we stand today,\u201d said William Ripple, an ecologist at Oregon State University and co-author the \u201cSecond Notice\u201d article. With few exceptions, those trends have gotten far worse over the past 25 years. <\/p>\n

\u201cSince 1992, CO2 [carbon dioxide] emissions have jumped 62 percent and the global temperature is up 29 percent, while the abundance of vertebrate wildlife has plunged 29 percent,\u201d Ripple told Motherboard.<\/p>\n

The data compiled by the researchers revealed that in the past 25 years, there has been:<\/p>\n