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3 things every human should know:

🔥Arctic permafrost is now melting at levels not expected until 2090.

🔥Arctic permafrost is now melting at levels not expected until 2090.

🔥Arctic permafrost is now melting at levels not expected until 2090.
Arctic permafrost now melting at levels not expected until 2090:

Not much media coverage of this, and this article criminally omits the catastrophic, terrifying implications of permafrost collapse.

independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
This thread ends by linking to a second one. Loads of info on permafrost... 👇
'What do we do?' is the popular question.

Some ideas. 👇

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By 2029, droughts won't last for weeks or months anymore.

They'll last for years.
Droughts, particularly in the Global South, will last anywhere from 6 months to 5 whole years.

Staggering:
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We must put a stop to imperial attitudes of Global North governments.
2°C - 3°C is possible by the end of the 2020s.

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Ben See
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1/ Does this map show the collapse of civilisation and the deaths of 7 billion humans and trillions of animals by the 2050s?

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2/ The map shows a planet which is 4°C warmer.

We'll hit 2°C average global temperature rise or more within a decade or two and this alone will put billions of lives especially in the Global South at risk. We need immediate, international emergency action:
3/ 4°C means the collapse of civilisation according to scientist, J. Schellnhuber.

The UK Met Office said this could happen by 2055 if we didn't stop pumping so many greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Ten years later we're pumping out more than ever.⚠️newscientist.com/article/dn1786…
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1°C irreversible feedbacks (now):

In 1990, scientists reported that allowing temperatures to go over 1°C was very, very risky.

"increases beyond 1.0°C may elicit rapid, unpredictable, and non-linear responses that could lead to extensive ecosystem damage"mediamanager.sei.org/documents/Publ…
This was from the AGGG (a group later replaced by the IPCC, presumably because governments didn't like their reports, as they implied a need to stop business as usual).

Today, IPCC doesn't properly include the terrifying feedback loops happening right now.en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advisory_…
Thanks @kalahar1 for this info.
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