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Ben See Profile picture
@ClimateBen
Aug 21, 2019 • 9 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
Scientists:

1. Warming is underestimated.
2. Warming is faster than expected.
3. Warming of 2.5- 4°C looks certain.
4. Warming of 4°C kills 7 billion.
5. Warming of 4°C by 2049? Maybe.
6. Warming of 4°C by 2099? Likely.
7. Warming is 1 of 10 lethal threats.

Front page news? No.
State-corporate media structures help Big Business and ignore/downplay all immediate existential threats:

Overfishing
Pesticides
Deforestation
Habitat destruction
Plastic pollution
Industrialised animal agriculture
Hunting/poaching
Soil erosion
Collapse of ecosystems
Nuclear war
Warming is underestimated and faster than expected:

1.
 blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/s…
2.
3.

Biological annihilation is also underestimated, and is virtually 100% absent from state-corporate media:
For a long time many scientists have said temperatures will exceed 2°C:


3°C or 4°C could well hit this century:

1.
2.
3.

2.5°C - 4°C now looks inevitable this century in my opinion.
Scientists have suggested that only 1 billion people could survive on a 4°C Earth:
climatecodered.org/2019/08/at-4c-…

Peer-reviewed science exists showing that warming could 'exceed 3.5–4C by 2050':
pnas.org/content/114/39…

See this thread for further details:
Billions of humans will only die if there is a failure to transform unjust/destructive systems, or if warming is too severe.

Currently billions of insects, birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians are being killed by corporate capitalism. Humans will perish as well at this rate.
See here as well for faster than expected:nature.com/articles/d4158…
See here for an article from two and a half years ago including well known figures commenting on how we will head over 2°C:
cbc.ca/news/technolog…

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Dec 25
Has capitalism left it too late to avoid unsurvivable 2/2.5°C of global warming and rising?

Yes.

Has the scientific community issued major consensus reports indicating only political-economic systems changes may end biodiversity destruction and limit abrupt climate chaos?

Yes.
A lot has happened in the past 10 months.

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The factory food, fossil fuel, and arms industries are all thriving. Cement, plastics, steel.. This capitalist Extinction Economy is the worst-case scenario. It won't stop emissions. It has condemned us to essentially unsurvivable warming at 1.9-2°C and rising by 2029-41. 🧵
1. Mass media journalists are silent on 2°C by 2032-41 as warming hits 1.38-1.5C increasing by 0.35-0.45C per decade.

'12 months after the peak of the El Niño event and global temperatures are still exceptionally high'

Capitalsim won't 'redouble efforts'.cbc.ca/news/science/2…
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Nov 20
BREAKING: World Meteorological Organization issues Red Alert to humanity as accelerating global warming of 1.4-1.7°C and rising heralds essentially unsurvivable conditions within years not decades 🧵
1. The January –September 2024 global mean surface air temperature was 1.54°C (with a margin of uncertainty of ±0.13°C) above the pre-industrial average boosted by a warming El Niño event according to an analysis of six international datasets used by WMO.
2.
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Nov 17
BREAKING: scientists hold back tears and shake their heads sadly as they explain utterly compromised COP29 climate conference was meant to be the last chance to organise rapid and deep emissions cuts for any chance of staying well below essentially unsurvivable 2°C 🧵
1. Time has run out to avoid 1.5°C (now sure to hit in the 2020s) and avoid the worst impacts of climate change. 1.75°C will be exceeded soon after with dire 2°C expected by 2030-2050

news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-env…
2. Abrupt climate change is just one compounding factor in extinction catastrophe.
Biodiversity destruction is a core part of the reality of industrial capitalism.
Change this Doom Economy now while it's still too late to protect species and everyone.🧵⬇️
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Nov 16
COLLAPSING: scientists confirm there's no doubt humanity will see the real risk of catastrophic multiple breadbasket failures by 2035-2045 🧵
1. “.. we will, certainly, in the next 15 to 20 years, see continued food crises, and the real risk of multiple breadbasket failures … that’s in addition to a lot of the other risks that might impact us through fresh-water pollution, ocean acidification..”dumptheguardian.com/environment/20…
2. theguardian.com/environment/20…
Disease, loss of insects to pollinate crops, collapse of fisheries..

IPBES report: a market-based focus on economic growth meant the wider benefits of nature – including spiritual, cultural and emotional value – had been ignored
x.com/ClimateBen/sta…
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Nov 14
BREAKING: horrified scientists discover plankton can't adapt to accelerating rate of global warming🧵
1. 'alarming: plankton are unable to adapt to the unprecedented speed of current temperature increases, jeopardizing vast marine ecosystems'

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

techexplorist.com/some-sea-life-…
2. even under conservative climate projections predicting a 2°C rise, it is evident that plankton cannot keep pace with the rapid warming we are experiencing, which shows no signs of slowing down'

Extinction: climate change is just one compounding factor.
techexplorist.com/some-sea-life-…
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