Thread by @KlasfeldReports

This chart from the @IPCC_CH climate report is particularly chilling.

Look at our current warming rate: Without dramatic action, scientists predict we hit 1.5 degrees by 2040.

My summary on @CourthouseNews. courthousenews.com/landmark-un-cl…

U.N. Secretary-General @AntonioGuterres on the half-degree difference between 1.5- and 2-degree goal.

* Heat waves for tens of millions.
* Extinctions
* Water scarcity
* 10x more Arctic ice free summers
* "Total wipe-out of the world's coral reefs."

Major obstacles from right-wing leaders of two of the world's biggest polluters:

* The US, the 2nd biggest CO2-spewer in 2017, pulling out of the Paris under Trump (effective 2020, per treaty's terms)

* If Brazil, 7th largest, elects Bolsonaro, he will likely withdraw.

Bolsonaro, who praised Brazil's old military dictatorship, got a large plurality of votes in the first round of voting. His nearest rival was 16 percentage points behind.

ICYMI, this weekend.

nytimes.com/2018/10/07/wor…

In rare good news for the planet, a Teddy Roosevelt-quoting federal judge advanced a lawsuit to protect a marine national monument in the Atlantic - "much older than Yosemite and Yellowstone."

via Eva Fedderly on @CourthouseNews