Climate Crisis Has Been Averted, Experts Say

The climate crisis has been successfully averted, scientists report today in a peer-reviewed article published in the Journal of Professional Experts. The paper’s authors canvassed world news stories from 2014 to 2024, searching for terms like “tackle the climate crisis” to independently assess the number of climate-mitigation projects that have been put in place worldwide.

“We hit the jackpot,” says lead author Eugene Chauve-Souris of the Washington, D.C. Institute of Politically-Neutral Investigation. “Taken together, at least 7.5 million projects have been run worldwide to tackle the climate crisis. Even if a significant number of those projects failed in their goals, it is still impossible to conclude otherwise than that humankind has successfully solved the problem.”

Professor Pip I. Strelle, an ontological epistemicist who was not involved in the study, said “What Chauve-Souris and his co-authors has done seems to add up. And it’s obvious that efforts to tackle climate change are ongoing today, even though such efforts are no longer necessary. Only a few days ago the UK’s BBC reported on a seaweed discovery that could help tackle climate change. Basically, the argument is, with so many efforts to tackle climate change underway across the globe, it is inconceivable that they have not yet, in sum, been successful.”

Asked what the implications of the study were for hurricanes, meteorologist Nyc Talus said, “Well, I would have thought that was obvious. There won’t be any hurricanes any more. There were no hurricanes before climate change, so there won’t be any now that climate change has successfully been averted.” The news comes as scientists confirm that the Earth has now spent an entire year in the “Danger Zone” of 1.5C above pre-industrial temperatures. However, it is expected that the situation will rapidly revert to normal now that the climate crisis has been tackled.

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