[Reader-list] [ecological-democracy] 17 Nobel Laureates, for what it is worth

[Sukla Sen]

Dear Naga,

Thanks.

The memorandum itself is available at <
http://globalsymposium2011.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/The-Stockholm-Memorandum.pdf
>.

Sukla

On 21 May 2011 23:33, Nagraj Adve <nagraj.adve at gmail.com> wrote:

> There's nothing in this post ln Real Climate that is new (I could not
> access the attached memorandum itself), including the climate sceptics
> crap at the end, but still worth reading.
> Naga
>
>
> On Wednesday, 17 Nobel laureates who gathered in Stockholm have
> published a remarkable memorandum, asking for “fundamental
> transformation and innovation in all spheres and at all scales in
> order to stop and reverse global environmental change”. The Stockholm
> Memorandum concludes that we have entered a new geological era: the
> Anthropocene, where humanity has become the main driver of global
> change. The document states:
>
>    Science makes clear that we are transgressing planetary boundaries
> that have kept civilization safe for the past 10,000 years. [...]
>    We can no longer exclude the possibility that our collective
> actions will trigger tipping points, risking abrupt and irreversible
> consequences for human communities and ecological systems.
>    We cannot continue on our current path. The time for
> procrastination is over. We cannot afford the luxury of denial.
>
> Mario Molina
> Mario Molina (Nobel prize in chemistry 1995) signs the Stockholm Memorandum
>
> The memorandum results from a 3-day symposium (attended also by the
> king of Sweden) on the intertwined problems of poverty, development,
> ecosystem deterioration and the climate crisis. In the memorandum, the
> Nobel laureates call for immediate emergency measures as well as
> long-term structural solutions, and they give specific recommendations
> in eight key priority areas. For example in climate policy, they
> recommend to:
>
>    Keep global warming below 2ºC, implying a peak in global CO2
> emissions no later than 2015 and recognise that even a warming of 2ºC
> carries a very high risk of serious impacts and the need for major
> adaptation efforts.
>
> The memorandum was handed over to the members of the UN high-level
> panel on global sustainability, who traveled to Stockholm in order to
> discuss it with the Nobel laureates and experts at the symposium.
>
> p.s. As a little reminder of the ongoing work of the merchants of
> doubt, a small band of five or six “climate sceptic” protesters were
> gathered outside the symposium, some of whom flown in from Berlin.
> Their pamphlet identified them as part of the longstanding
> anti-climate-science campaign of US billionaire Lyndon Larouche and
> claimed that climate change is “a hoax” and an “insane theory”, the
> global temperature measurements are “mere lies”, the Nobel laureates
> meeting “a conspiracy” and the Stockholm Memorandum a “Fascist
> Manifesto”. I approached one of the protesters who carried a banner
> “against Green fascism” and asked him whether he seriously believes
> what his pamphlet says, namely that our meeting is a “symposium for
> global genocide”. He nodded emphatically and replied: “Yes, of
> course!”
>



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