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It’s so much worse than you think. Dr. James Hansen, former director of the NASA Goddard Institute for space studies. Says we face the equivalent devastation of a direct hit from a giant asteroid. Dr. Will Steffen, Professor at the Australian national University, warns global collapse is now the most likely outcome. Professor Tim Lenton, Exeter University, believes on the course we are on there is no chance of civilisation being intact in 2100. "We have assessed the amount of climate change we can adapt to. There's a lot we can't adapt to even at 2ºC. At 4ºC the impacts are very high and we cannot adapt to them." — Rachel Warren, Professor of Global Change and Environmental Biology, University of East Anglia "Virtually all of us are now convinced that global warming poses a clear and present danger to civilization." — Lonnie Thompson, Paleoclimatologist, Ohio State University "It really hasn't sunk in yet, that we've effectively lost the ice sheets. It's only a matter of time until we have many meters of sea level rise. Society has to prepare itself for the catastrophic loss of the coastlines and a retreat inland. Yet we're acting like we negotiate our way out of it." — Jason Box, Glaciologist, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland "A rise of 2°C and above will seriously threaten the stability of global society." — Bill McGuire, Professor Emeritus of Geophysical & Climate Hazards, University College London "The climate crisis has arrived and is accelerating faster than most scientists expected. It is more severe than anticipated, threatening natural ecosystems and the fate of humanity." — Joint Statement of 11,000+ Scientists, BioScience "We cannot continue to pollute the atmosphere, poison the ocean and exhaust the land. There isn't any more available." — Stephen Hawking, Theoretical Physicist, University of Cambridge

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