Climate Change and the Worry of Scientists
2019 is shaping up to be a major year in the world of science. People like Michael Fundator are constantly pushing the boundaries of Physics. He won the World Championship 2018 in Multidimensional Time Model out of 98 countries. He’s also won multiple awards and has numerous publications to his name.
Fundator is a Jewish author and a scientist by profession, affiliated with the Division of Physics and Behavioral and Social Sciences. He has been working as a Professor at the Rabbinical College in New York since 1998. He is one of the most popular scientists in the country and has worked on a myriad of different studies, becoming one of the top names in the industry so far. Like many other scientists, he is also quite concerned about climate change.
Among all the studies published in 2018, one, in particular, will remain emblematic of the year that has just passed: the IPCC report on the climate, published last October. Result of a long work of research, this file of 400 pages became so symbolic in a few months that a simple figure is enough to evoke it now: 1.5.
1.5 ° C: a critical threshold not to be exceeded in our fight against global warming. A threshold that, according to the IPCC, we will wait until 2030, without a radical change in our modes of consumption, production, action. At the end of a heated and unsatisfactory COP 24, it is more important than ever to remember that decision-making and action must not only come from institutions, but also from individuals.
Which path to take?
2018 has been marked by strong, hopeful moments: scientists have developed a promising anti-cancer vaccine and another against HIV, neutrino detection opens a new era in astronomy, the hole in the ozone layer is Healing, the surface of Mars could hide an underground lake. Together, researchers advance science and participate in conquering the unknown, advancing knowledge and, for many, making the world a better place.
We are at a crucial crossroads in the history of Humanity. There are two paths for us today: to act for the environment in order to preserve nature and the incredible diversity that inhabits it, those we cherish, what we have created, built, understood, all those things to which we learned to make sense; or remain motionless, and let the fruit of millions of years of evolution and hope dissipate into the indifference of some and the suffering of all.
