Facts are facts, but bombing people with them is rarely useful

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vidence illustrates that bombing people with facts about climate change rarely has any useful outcome.

Climate scientist, Ricarda Winkelmann,
from Germany's Potsdam Institute.

However, as frightening as the facts might be we have to incorporate them into our thinking and somewhere find the emotional and intellectual resource to get beyond being frozen into inaction and act to play our part, no matter how small, in making our communities more resilient.

The world’s fossil fuel companies seem intent on burning all the resources they have and a team of climate scientists, as intrigued as anyone else, considered the “worst case scenario” for the world if that was to happen.

A climate scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany and the lead author of the study, Ricarda Winkelmann, said: “"We usually think about our generation, maybe the next generation. It is hard for people to think of Earth a thousand years in the future. But what we are doing right now, the CO2 we are emitting into the atmosphere, could change the face of our planet a thousand years from now."

Read the Inside Climate News story - “Climate Change’s Worst-Case Scenario: 200 Feet of Sea Level Rise”.