White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said on Tuesday that Biden agrees with his climate envoy, John Kerry, that there are only nine years left to reverse climate change.
When asked if the President agrees with Kerry's assessment that humanity will face an impending climate catastrophe if sufficient climate action is not taken in the next nine years, Psaki responded "I don't have a new timeline to give you from here."
"I can confirm for you though that the President agrees with former Secretary Kerry, that it's a crisis, that time is of the essence, that we need to act quickly, and that's why climate is a key part of his agenda," Psaki continued.
It was on Friday that John Kerry said "I think it's a very appropriate way to think of it, so it is directly related to the warming, even though your instinct is to say, wait a minute, this is the new Ice Age. But it's not. It is coming from the global warming and it threatens all the normal weather patterns."
"The scientists told us three years ago we had 12 years to avert the worst consequences of climate crisis. We are now three years gone, so we have nine years left."
"Even if we did everything that we said we were going to do when we signed up in Paris we would see a rise in the Earth's temperature to somewhere around 3.7 degrees or more, which is catastrophic."
The numbers Kerry was referencing originate from a 2018 report from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which initially said that humanity has 12 years to reverse course in order to prevent global temperatures from rising above 1.5 degrees Celsius. Three years have passed since then.
The ultimate goal is to have net-zero carbon emissions across the world by 2050.
The data has been exaggerated by activists, however, as the 12 year period provided in the report does not indicate that the planet will be destroyed if the entire global economy is not overhauled by then. Rather, by 2030, the report suggests that economies must be on track to reduce carbon emissions.
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