14,000 scientists warn of "untold suffering" if we fail to act on climate change - Mic

That is exactly what scientists from around the world are cautioning will happen if we don't take the threat of climate change seriously.

In a paper published Wednesday in the journal BioScience, more than 14,000 scientists from 153 countries signed their name to research that warns of an incoming climate emergency.

According to the paper, 18 of the 31 indicators have reached record levels — and these are not records that we should be trying to break.

In the time since that paper was initially published, the world has suffered significantly from extreme weather events caused or made worse by climate change.