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Aug 20, 2019 • 14 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
The Amazon Rainforest will be gone by 2029, with catastrophic consequences for all life on Earth.

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The Amazon Rainforest could be converted into barren desert *overnight*.

🔺response to rising global temperatures & increased risk of severe drought “non-linear”

🔺Huge risk of hitting irreversible tipping point

🔺Scientific models underestimate risk
independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
State-corporate media have known about climate catastrophe and the death of the Amazon for decades.

Papers like @guardian won't make it sustained front page news.

And it's never on TV.

Only those on social media can inform themselves about this crisis.

theguardian.com/environment/20…
The book 'Six Degrees' discusses feedbacks under the heading 'The death of the Amazon':

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1108996…

It states the Amazon will be 'doomed' over 2°C.

And we will go over 2°C very soon.

Meanwhile, deforestation continues for cattle and feed.
The Amazon Rainforest has experienced three 100-yr droughts in the space of just 10 years.

counterpunch.org/2018/10/26/the…
In the past 50 years, ~20% of the Amazon has been cut down in Brazil.

⚠️If another 20% of the Amazon were to go, that could trigger a dieback feedback loop, in which the forest dries out and burns. The Amazon would devolve into a savannah-like landscape.⚠️businessinsider.fr/us/amazon-rain…
Climate breakdown could speed up the large-scale destruction of the Amazon rainforest and bring the "point of no return" much closer than previously thought.

⚠️ Almost 60% of the region's forests could be wiped out or severely damaged by 2030.

theguardian.com/environment/20…
ALL TROPICAL RAINFORESTS ARE BEING KILLED.

See thread:👇
Amazon destruction from deforestation is at a peak. Desertification at 1.5°C - 2°C will follow as climate breakdown fires cause widespread collapse of the fragmented forests.

Corporate capitalism is killing life on the planet.

68% of the Indigenous lands and protected natural areas in the nine nations encompassing the Amazon region are under pressure from roads, mining, dams, oil drilling, forest fires and deforestation.

news.mongabay.com/2019/06/amazon…
Explore this thread and the threads within for how we're heading into Climate Chaos & Ecological Calamity, all because of omnicidal, colonial capitalism, and downplayed by state-corporate media, even (especially) the newspapers trusted by people who care.👇
See here for more on the Amazon:
See here for the full, extraordinary planetary cataclysm, and what awaits us by 2029.👇
'What should I/we do?' is what everybody asks.

Do what you think is morally right.

Push for #ClimateJustice for the 5-6 billion people living 10$ a day or less.

Vote for those who value system change - yes, Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn, for example.

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Sep 17
BREAKING: scientists warn humanity has 66 months to organise and implement a massive unprecedented transformative shift away from today's short term profits and economic growth to halt biodiversity destruction and curb extinction rates which are now the fastest in Earth history🧵
1. Corporations block change

Achieving the Biodiversity Plan will require massive, unprecedented transformation and shifting from short term profits to long term sustainability..high ambition must prevail..halt and reverse biodiversity destruction by 2030.iucn.org/cbdcop16
2. 'moving away from the conception of economic progress based solely on GDP growth'

See joint IPCC-IPBES 2020-2021 report totally ignored by mass media.

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Sep 16
BREAKING: the majority of climate scientists now expect conditions extreme enough to wipe out 35-70% of Earth's species within decades 🧵
1. An extraordinary 77% of IPCC scientists questioned expect 2.6-5°C of global warming (or more) in the coming 5 to 9 decades.



Conservation biologists say at least half of Earth's species will be wiped out at 3°C.

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dumptheguardian.com/environment/ar…
2. Abrupt climate change is just one (major) compounding factor in extinction catastrophe. Scientists dreaming of 1.4-1.5°C by 2100 face a new reality. The recently updated best-case scenario 1.6-1.8°C by ~2050 is very unlikely. Expect 1.9-2°C by 2030-2050.nature.com/articles/s4155…
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Sep 16
BREAKING: new terrifying best-case global warming scenario of 1.6-1.8°C and falling is based on profoundly speculative assumptions with 95% of scientists actually fully expecting 1.9-2.1°C and rising fast towards 21st century extinction for the majority of Earth's species 🧵
1. Few IPCC experts expect the extraordinary emergency action in the coming years of capitalism required (in theory) to avoid 2.7-3.3°C. They expect 1.9-5°C.

Change this Extinction Economy now while it's still too late to protect species and everyone.

dumptheguardian.com/environment/ar…
2. At least half of all species extinct at around 2.75/3.25°C.

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Sep 14
BREAKING:  horror as scientists confirm cataclysmic global warming of 1.75-2°C by 2030-2050 is unavoidable even in best-case emissions scenarios 🧵
1. "We inevitably face..overshoot" (beyond 1.5°C)


'by.. probably multiple tenths of a degree even under the highest possible ambition'


So in theory with wildly optimistic assumptions best-case 1.7-1.8°C by 2050 (1.9-2.6°C likely).ted.com/talks/johan_ro…
nature.com/articles/s4155…
2. With the consensus best case scenario now realistically ~1.75°C, time to recall the IPCC second best scenario has been shown to have a 66-68% chance of >2°C by 2044-2065 in a major study recognised by mainstream scientists.

So.. 1.75-2.25°C by 2050.

news.stanford.edu/stories/2023/0…
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Sep 12
BREAKING: out of control methane emissions are following the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s most pessimistic greenhouse gas scenarios implying a cataclysmic global temperature increase of 1.9-2.1°C and rising in the next decade or two 🧵
1/emissions soaring to record highs

trend “cannot continue if we are to maintain a habitable climate

currently no technologies capable of removing gas from atmosphere

researchers found little evidence world is making progress on pledges to cut emissions
euronews.com/green/2024/09/…
2/'The growth in emissions they observed follows the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s most pessimistic greenhouse gas scenarios. This could mean a global temperature increase of more than 3C above pre-industrial times by the end of the century.'
euronews.com/green/2024/09/…
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Sep 10
BREAKING: horrific extreme temperatures of 2023/2024 unlikely to be a blip with 1.75-2°C of global warming projected to hammer Earth's species within years 🧵
1. A range of projections show 1.75-2°C as likely to hit by 2030-2043, so in less than one or two decades. Conservative estimate: 2°C by ~2048.

'some combination of forcings or changes in feedbacks may be driving higher global temperatures going forward'

theclimatebrink.com/p/2024s-unusua…
2. Without utterly extraordinary events in the coming years we can anticipate 2°C by 2030-2043.

See James Hansen's comments:
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