The press releases coming out of the COP26 climate conferences make it feel like the climate crisis is over and that we can all enjoy the 1.5 degree centigrade rise in average global temperatures by 2050. Far from it there have only been pledges and there really is no action plan.
The COP26 climate conference has already failed; we need to reverse global waring and quickly. The world's average temperature has risen by 1.1 degrees centigrade since the start of the industrial revolution , we are now starting to see the results with our very own eyes. There is now no doubt that the intense forest fires across Australia , California and Europe in recent years are the result of global warming. So have the floods in the Indian sub-continent, China and Europe. Now the world is starting to see the direct result of climate induced famine in Madagascar. An extra 0.5 degrees of global warming will make matters worse not better.
Cop26 has not tackled the taboo subject of over population which is a driver of both global warming and species extinction.
James Hansen the famous client scientist warned about dangers of climate change to the US congress in 1988, and all his concerns have become true. Since, 1988 the world has done precious little to curb climate change, and global warming has only got worse. Lets hope that Cop26 is not going to be the cop out that I fear it will be. After listening to James Hansen's presentation back in 1988, I did not believe that the world would become threatened in my lifetime, and now I can hardly believe believe that the warnings have become true, but they have: this is a rather metaphorically chilling thought.
You can easily buy James Hansen's book, from 2011, "The Storms Of My Grandchildren" here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Storms-My-Grandchildren-Catastrophe-Humanity/dp/1408807467
