“It’s too late. We’re doomed.” —Dr. Peter Carter, expert IPCC reviewer and Director of the Climate Emergency Institute, calls it – joins David Suzuki in official recognition of unavoidable endgame on planet, climate, Homo sapiens
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Dr Carter is a family GP, and anyone can be an IPCC “expert” reviewer.
From his [own website](https://climateemergencyforum.org/meet-our-team.html):
> He is a medically-qualified doctor, with a background in environmental health policy. He is the director of the Climate Emergency Institute,
Being an “expert reviewer” does not make him a climate expert, just like reviewing a restaurant on Yelp does not make you a chef. Most of his IPCC layperson suggestions were rejected.
Additionally the IPCC explicitly forbids people from using their stint as a reviewer as a credential, and yet, he keeps doing it.
> “because the review is essentially **open to all through a self-declaration of expertise**, it follows that having been a registered expert reviewer does not by itself serve as a qualification of the expert **or support their credibility** in a different context.”
https://www.ipcc.ch/2020/12/04/what-is-an-expert-reviewer-of-ipcc-reports/
The rest of the “Climate Emergency Forum” is a rogues’ gallery of unqualified grifters.
https://climateemergencyforum.org/meet-our-team.html
Not “We’re running out of time.”
Not “It might be too late.”
Not “If we don’t act now, it will be too late.”
# [It’s too late.](https://youtu.be/vtiQqP21Ppc?feature=shared&t=81)
# [We’re doomed.](https://youtu.be/vtiQqP21Ppc?feature=shared&t=1927)
^Direct quotes.
These are not the words of some chronically online Redditor with a bent for apocalypticism. These are not the words of some anonymous scientist reporting on an unofficial blog. These are not the words of self-described doomers talking about breaking together in loving collapse, or calculating atomic bombs per second on Twitter.
These are the words of world-famous mainstream scientist David Suzuki, and IPCC expert reviewer Peter Carter, telling us it is already too late. We are out of time.
Dr. Carter joins the voice of David Suzuki to offer an official confirmation of the climate endgame. He discusses David’s pronouncement at length.
The video is well worth watching.
Dr. Carter has provided consistent, rigorous, high-quality, forthright, honest, and courageous reporting about the state of the planetary climate emergency for years now.
Some of his most salient points are excerpted below with rough timestamps:
>~1:20
>“It is too late, and we have lost the fight against climate change.”
>~5:20
>“We’re stuck with today’s atmospheric CO2. We’re stuck with today’s radiative forcing.”
>~13:15
>”What we need is a revolution.”
>~29:40
>“It was very clear that 1.5°C was globally disastrous, and that 2°C was unthinkable globally catastrophic.”
>~30:00
>“The IPCC Sixth Assessment said that global emissions had to be in decline by 2025 at the latest. 2025 at the latest. This year. It’s too late.”
>~32:00
>“The realization or the idea that we’re doomed has come along.”
>~32:30
>“All today’s children are doomed to live in an increasingly hellish Planet Earth. ***A Planet Earth that human Homo sapiens, and the hominid pre-species to us, has never experienced.*** Never experienced anything close to this. And the climate is changing faster than it has changed in tens of millions of years. So that’s how much too late this is.”
I feel like this guy has been preaching the end of times for a while now. In the climate emergency forum videos he always repeats the same doom n gloom without providing any insights or information. I still do not understand what his expertise is.
Has anyone been following me Nate Hagens for the last few years? He has and continues to invite numerous scientists and even actuaries to discuss findings and suggestions for the future. Nate studied finance before switching over to natural resources. He’s smart, but often admits he is learning from every guest he invited to talk.
The most damning and amazing guest he had on was Luke Kemp. If you have not seen it, then settle in, get your popcorn and a beverage (I suggest having something stiff on hand, because you may need it).
https://youtu.be/8E_x4Xe5Eak?si=ZHYfcBfXWtg090T1
This remains a logical fallacy, because there is no end point to climate change, anything we do now reduces future impacts, obviously conversely anything we fail to do now increases the impacts of climate change. It is still vitally important that we reduce emissions – even if 3° is inevitable and calamitous, it’s still better than 4.5°.
Doomer slop
As tipping points are reached the next stages will be increasingly chaotic. Currently we appear to be on a doomsday trajectory. What happens at 3°C increase won’t be a mystery for much longer. After that there’s a slight hope that we may hit a balance between billions dying which should slow down climate change and the continued climate overload from build up of temperatures from methane and CO2 persistence. Just my armchair pessimistic view.
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