Scientists declare ‘extinction disaster’ is right here as a result of ‘time has now run out’

Scientists have released a dire warning as they say this could be the end of the world as we know it.

Every year world leaders gather at the COP29 Climate Conference to work together and create financial plans to curb climate change and save the planet. They were previously set a goal to flatten the growing curve of temperature rises. Experts warned it needed to be below an unsustainable two degree rise across the world. However, this has not been reached according to one climate expert, who now claims it’s way too late. With a rapid grow in emissions, Ben See, named Climate Ben on X, says we can no longer avoid at least a 1.5 increase.

Online, he wrote: “Scientists hold back tears and shake their heads sadly as they explain utterly compromised COP29 climate conference was meant to be the last chance to organise rapid and deep emissions cuts for any chance of staying well below essentially survivable two degrees.”

He continued with warnings that “time had run out” and that we can no longer avoid the worst points of climate change. We are said to reach a 1.5 degree rise in the 2020s and then a 1.75 soon after. Two degrees will hit between 2030 to 2050, says Ben.

This is said to lead to the world as we know it collapsing. Climate change experts claim crops won’t grow, animals will die out and it will cause many deaths world-wide.

Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago said: “According to one 2014 projection by the World Health Organisation, climate change is most likely to cause 250,000 deaths annually from 2030 to 2050.”

Ben added we will enter a “extinction catastrophe” which will see animals, crops and humans die. Not only this, he says climate change has a direct link to capitalism.

“Rapid habitat and species destruction linked directly to GDP growth and short-term profit maximisation,” he detailed. Donald Trump’s recent election as the next President of the United States has worried civilians, as the business man has previously called climate change “mythical”, “nonexistent”, or “an expensive hoax”.

However, the TV personality has also said it is a “serious subject” that is “very important to [him]”.

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