true false weather reports show projections of climate change by 2050. An effective campaign orchestrated by the World Meteorological Organization
Hello, we are Wednesday, 17 August 2050. You watch the daily weather report, presented by Evelyne Dhéliat, you know well, since it regularly presents the weather.
With the same nonchalance that if she announced to us “seasonal normal” Evelyn Dhéliat presents a semi-apocalyptic weather report. Not only it’s not a hoax, but in addition, these temperatures have been recorded in France.
“It’s ever seen”
In 2003, France had an exceptional heatwave. The message that the World Meteorological Organization wants to convey is that these events that until then “outstanding” is referred may occur more regularly up ‘to become recurring, seasonal … usual. As a regular weather report …
“The IPCC * considers these extreme events will intensify in the coming years, and this across the globe. “
* The expert Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The weather reports were made to several countries, several languages in order to reach as many people:
“Do not act will cost even more»
There are already twelve years in 2002 at the Earth Summit in Johannesburg, Jacques Chirac said:
“ Our house is burning and we are looking elsewhere ”
With this alarming series of clips by the way trivialize climatic phenomena that are considered exceptional and catastrophic , the WMO draws our attention to the fire that ravaged the house and that seemed to mistaken for a chimney fire … After all, a few degrees warmer in the winter, we do not complain, though?
It panic or it is organized?
If the message is alarmist, yet it is not fatalistic: we can act , there is still time to do so. At this time, from 1 to 20 December, a climate conference is underway in Lima, Peru. The negotiations that have already begun are crucial because they must allow to reach an agreement at the next conference, to be held in Paris in December 2015. The Foreign Ministry has also responded by announcing that Laurent Fabius currently taking part in the negotiations.
For more information on the 21th Climate Conference, and read the strip illustrated by Penelope Bagieu on behalf of the Ile-de-France IAU, click on the image!
If the WMO wanted to challenge the citizen • nes of all countries on the severity of the climate situation, but also that we have a role to play. Personally, knowing that future climate change will depend “ an agreement between all countries ‘, they have one year to successfully negotiate, that does not reassure me at all.
Already because I hear “Kyoto” echoing a famous agreement of the same ilk, who was supposed to help in the fight against the production of greenhouse gas effects. States have finally made their little arrangements, rich buying the right to pollute more to the poor, a double negative effect: continue polluting while hindering the development of Third World countries. Su-per.
So yes, I am a little skeptical, and that is not nothing to say, to quote Mickey 3D. Fortunately, in addition to these international conferences, civil society mobilizes successfully. Walking for the Climate 21 September 2014 was a global success. Everywhere in many cities around the world, associations and citizens were mobilized nes • • e • s to attract the attention of their governments on this issue, and keep the pressure on the eve of the opening of negotiations for Climate in New York.
We also each • e on our scale, we can act to curb global warming , either through small everyday gestures and / or with an occasional or regular involvement with associations and political parties have mobilized on this issue.
For students • e • s, you can already REFEDD join the French Network of Students for Sustainable Development. They are also represented in Lima, right now! We recently relayed their national consultation on sustainable development.
The association Generations Guinea Pigs (derived from Call of Youth) is also very involved in environmental issues, and has worked with a REFEDD National Coordination of Youth, which is preparing the December 2015 Conference: We Are Ready Now! (And they are recruiting!)
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Yes, mobilize to stop global warming is going to ask us energy, and a slightly more concrete involvement of signing petitions on the Internet. But given the seriousness of the issues, it will not be disproportionate.
When reality catches up with fiction
For several years now that the fictions are using more and more spectrum climatic and environmental changes such disaster scenarios. There was The Day the Earth stopped, Quantum of Solace James Bond (the scarcity of resources), but more recently Interstellar .
The series is no exception. If you follow the excellent series The Newsroom Season 3 comes to resume also developing a plot that revolves around alarming revelations about the consequences of the production of carbon dioxide. Since the series regularly use real information to develop his fictional scenario, it is reasonable to ask what is truly from fiction in recent episodes …
In 2008, Mozinor had already released a weather of the future, also apocalyptic. But the joke that made her laugh there six years, took from a prophetic dimension quite disturbing …
And you, what do you think? Are you concerned about climate change? Does the campaign of WMO made you want to get involved more? Come talk about it in the comments!
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