THE WARNING BELLS HAVE NOT BEEN HEEDED.

In the over 20 years that this site has been operating the constant flow of information regarding climate change has been politically ignored. Token statements made but always based on electoral cycles. Every catastrophe has been followed by “lessons to be learnt” but they are never learnt and now we have reached the tipping point and in our opinion it has been passed. A climate scientist at ETH Zürich, said scientists at the conference used to discuss the physics of how climate change increases rainfall intensity over lunch on the banks of the New Danube. It is ironic to now see these banks, where we were sitting in the sun and discussing the science of extreme precipitation, now being flooded. The death toll from floods hinges on how well communities prepare for the rain and respond to its effects. Scientists have urged governments to invest in adapting to extreme weather events through early warning systems, more resilient infrastructure and support schemes for victims, while also ending their reliance on fossil fuels. It’s clear that even highly developed countries are not safe from climate change. As long as the world burns oil, gas and coal, heavy rainfall and other weather extremes will intensify, making our planet a more dangerous and expensive place to live. What has not received enough MSM coverage is the real elephant in the room sea level rises. A new science briefing has revealed there is a “grim outlook” for Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica, also known as the ‘Doomsday Glacier’, which if it melts could plunge parts of the world underwater. Thwaites Glacier is a vast area of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and is the same size as Great Britain or the US state of Florida. It has been dubbed ‘Doomsday Glacier’ because of the threats it poses to Planet Earth if it were to melt, such as the possibility of sinking large areas of the planet’s land mass. Scientists have said if Thwaites Glacier, one of the largest and fastest-changing glaciers in the world, collapsed entirely then sea levels would rise by 65cm.This may not sound like a lot, but a 2019 report stated that 44 per cent of the world’s population lives within 150km of the coast, almost one in 10 people live in coasts less than 10m above sea level and more than 70 per cent of the planet’s surface is already below sea level. A project of UK and US scientists called International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC) is aiming to predict the rate and magnitude of ongoing sea level rises that will have a huge impact on the hundreds of millions of people on coasts from Bangladesh to low-lying Pacific islands, from New York to London.