Turning the climate crisis into a TV love child of Jerry Springer and Judge Judy | Planet Oz

As a Trump appointee pushes for televised slanging match, a New York magazine cover story sparks a different debate – should we talk about how bad global warming could actually get?In the United States, people who refuse to accept even some of the basic tenets of climate science are calling for a heated debate.“Who better to do that than a group of scientists … getting together and having a robust discussion for all the world to see,” the boss of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, told Reuters. Related: Climate Change Authority loses last climate scientist | Planet Oz What follows is not a series of predictions of what will happen — that will be determined in large part by the much-less-certain science of human response. Instead, it is a portrait of our best understanding of where the planet is heading absent aggressive action. It is unlikely that all of these warming scenarios will be fully realized, largely because the devastation along the way will shake our complacency. But those scenarios, and not the present climate, are the baseline. In fact, they are our schedule. Related: Planet could breach 1.5C warming limit within 10 years, but be aware of caveats "#Climate change is the number one threat to the reef" but India needs our coal, says @JoshFrydenberg pic.twitter.com/P5Jx5uBGfw Continue reading...