Forest fires linked to extreme temperatures. Drought as a result of climate change. Warmer seas, storms and floods. Consequences for the survival of humans and other species, with 30 million climate refugees in 2020 alone. These are some signs of the climate threat listed in a debate article in Aftonbladet.
It is ahead of the upcoming elections that 1944 researchers have signed the article that urges politicians to do more on climate issues. There, they refer to a compilation by the research network Researchers Desk, which has concluded that six out of eight parties completely miss the Paris Agreement's 1.5-degree target.
"We must believe that it is a matter of flagrant recklessness, because the alternative would be that politicians ignore dealing with the climate crisis, or sell out to win votes in the short term", the matter is commented on in the article and continues later:
"What is required for you politicians to take the research and the crisis seriously?"
In an interview with Dagens Industri, one of the signatories, Maria Wolrath-Söderberg, who researches climate argumentation at Södertörn University, comments on the debate article and calls it a revolt.
– Researchers who have had watertight bulkheads between different disciplines are now making common cause. We have started to coordinate, which has been healthy in many ways. We have been able to share the frustration, she says to DI.
In the debate article, the measures surrounding the corona pandemic are mentioned as examples that rapid societal changes are possible and urges that the same means be used in climate policy.
