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When the world\\u2019s scientists are concerned enough about something that they issue a warning \\u2013 to the world, you might think we\\u2019d all take notice. Once you get to three warnings, however, well, you start to wonder just how intelligent we humans really are.

After a 1992 warning, and another in 2017, world scientists have this month issued what our guest, Stuart Scott, has termed, a \\u201cfinal notice.\\u201d In this episode we visit with the man who offered to help the world\\u2019s scientists step up to the microphone and be heard.

Scott is the founder and Executive Director of the Union of Concerned Citizens of Earth. He\\u2019s taken on the mission of helping the world\\u2019s scientists communicate well with everyday people.

The most recent warning, by the Alliance of World Scientists, is titled World Scientists\\u2019 Warning of a Climate Emergency, and was published in the November issue of the professional journal, Bioscience. It begins:

\\u201cScientists have a moral obligation\\xa0to clearly warn humanity of any catastrophic threat and to \\u2018tell it like it is.\\u2019 On the basis of this obligation and the graphical indicators presented below, we declare, with more than 11,000 scientist signatories from around the world, clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency.\\u201d

The piece goes on to summarize \\u201csix critical and interrelated steps\\u2026that governments, businesses, and the rest of humanity can take to lessen the worst effects of climate change.

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Scientistswarning.org
This site has links to original 1992 warning, 2017 warning, and 2019 climate warning

Robert Newman \\u2013 History of Oil

ScientistsWarningTV

Alliance of World Scientists

World Scientists Declare Climate Emergency
Brief video featuring one of the warning co-authors, Dr. Thomas Newsome from the University of Sydney

We Don\\u2019t Have Time

Greta Thunberg message to world leaders at COP24

Rewriting Our Cultural Narrative \\u2013 episode 105 of Conversation Earth

We\\u2019re In Deep: Earth Overshoot Day 2019 \\u2013 GrowthBusters episode with Mathis Wackernagel

William Rees\\u2019 two recent \\u201cAm I Wrong\\u201d queries:

Don\\u2019t Call Me a Pessimist on Climate Change. I Am a Realist (part one) by William Rees

Memo from a Climate Crisis Realist: The Choice before Us (part two) by William Rees

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