Will Steffen Earth System Scientist University of Florida, University of Missouri, Australian National University FEAR: LOSS OF CONTROL OF THE CLIMATE SYSTEM
"The climate is related to many parts of the Earth; the land, the ocean, the ice, the atmosphere. We're noticing abrupt changes in all of these areas..."
Tim Flannery Mammalogist, Paleontologist University of New South Wales, Monash University, La Trobe University FEAR: DISRUPTION OF GLOBAL CIVILISATION
"Climate Science underestimated the pace of climate change, it was too conservative. We're now having far more rapid change than originally projected. Change that if not slowed, will undoubtedly affect my children and my grandchildren..."
Sarah Perkins Extreme weather researcher University of New South Wales FEAR: INCREASE IN EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS
"As the background climate warms due to human activity, this increases the frequency and intensity of hot temperature events. I am concerned about how the very broad and damaging impacts of heatwaves will affect human health, infrastructure, agriculture, and natural systems. By the time we realise we need to make changes and start to put these changes in place, it might not be enough to balance out the range of catastrophes we will be facing..."
Peter Macreadie Marine Ecologist University of Technology Sydney, Deakin University FEAR: GLOBAL CATASTROPHE
"IPCC predicts that the impacts of climate change will be catastrophic. This affects everybody. Nobody is safe. We're going to lose low lying countries, there will be a loss of live stock, potential wide spread famine and species extinction..."
Matthew England Oceanographer, Climate scientist, University of NSW, Sydney FEAR: CLIMATE INDUCED GLOBAL CONFLICT
"Accelerated warming and expansion of water in the oceans, and increased melting rates of glaciers and ice caps are expected to increase sea levels by a metre or more over the next 100 years. This will pose a decisive threat to the existence of human settlements, infrastructures and industries across the world that are close to the shore lines. Those environmental degradations will aggravate global conflict as tens of millions of people migrate and their food supplies become threatened..."
Lesley Hughes Ecologist, Macquarie University, Sydney FEAR: SPECIES EXTINCTION
"My work on the potential impacts of climate change on species and ecosystems has made it clear that the human species is now threatened..."
Shauna Murray Biological Scientist University of Technology Sydney, University of Tokyo, University of New South Wales FEAR: REACHING THE FOUR DEGREES OF WARMING
"We've recorded all sorts of climate change shifts in multiple areas. However, the scientific process is consistent. Every single individual study that has been done, has gone through the same rigorous process, data collection, research analysis, and qualified peer review. At the moment, we've at least 10 000 different papers, completed over 20 years, each using different data sets, and they are all coming to the same climate change conclusions. We've a weight of evidence that the average person is simply not aware of - and this frightens me..."
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