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@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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Apr 6
BREAKING: staggered climate scientists warn anything is now possible (and they mean anything) after the biggest jump in temperature ever recorded anywhere on Earth occurs in the Antarctic
1. "if we had a 40C rise in the UK now.. that would be deadly for the population.”

Glaciologist Prof Martin Siegert, of the University of Exeter: “No one in our community thought that anything like this could ever happen."

“It is simply mind-boggling”

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2. Capitalism means rapid mass extinction via biodiversity annihilation. Corporations have locked in the destruction of the planet as we knew it. Abrupt climate change is just one compounding factor in extinction catastrophe. Change this Extinction Economy.
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BREAKING: IPCC scientist reveals it's actually been years since their models first indicated the catastrophic global warming acceleration now happening was to be expected 🧵
1. The IPCC is still silent on it's own findings

a) models show the current catastrophic global warming acceleration of the 2020s was to be expected

Why wasn't this communicated back in 2018- 2022?


b) emissions should've peaked by ~2022 to avoid 3/3.5°Ccarbonbrief.org/factcheck-why-…
2. 'To keep global temperatures below 1.5C, 2C or even 2.5C, emissions must peak before 2025'

The IPCC still hasn't communicated this. It seems this is true for 3°C, too. Virtually the only mass media article that explained the situation back in 2022:
france24.com/en/environment…
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BREAKING: climate scientists confirm catastrophic accelerated warming set to hit this decade 🧵
1. 'we may expect an accelerated surface temperature warming in this decade'

'a positive EEI confirms the lag of the climate system in responding to forcing and implies that additional global warming will take place even without further forcing changes"
nature.com/articles/s4324…
2.
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Apr 3
BREAKING: scientific community begins to confront widespread denial with team of distinguished scientists publishing a paper explicitly stating exploitative wealth-oriented capitalism must be replaced immediately as the extinction of 32- 70% of Earth's species in decades looms🧵
1/'a critical paradigm shift must occur that replaces exploitative, wealth-oriented capitalism with an economic model that prioritizes sustainability, resilience, and justice'

* increasing clarity on mandatory economic change

* flaws on carrying capacity
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/arti…
2/ The recent research cited in the paper agrees with previous studies showing that up to 40- 70% of species risk extinction.

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BREAKING: as Earth's major forests begin to collapse a new report shows 95% of companies behind catastrophic rapid industrial-scale deforestation have failed to take meaningful action since pledging to stop the destruction 10 years ago with a 2025 tipping point deadline looming🧵
1. Rainforests in SE Asia have hit tipping points. 20- 26% of the Amazon Rainforest is in a state of collapse

"The tipping point is not a future scenario but rather a stage already present"

Savannization is already taking place in both Brazil and Bolivia.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/0…
2. Climate scientist and Amazon Rainforest expert Carlos Nobre warns that deforestation across the whole of the Amazon must end by next year.

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“..a system can collapse in the sense of massive extinction in relatively short time.. even a slow parameter change can suddenly lead to a system collapse with catastrophic consequences.”

Prepare to avoid future disasters or mitigate their effects? 🧵

sciencesprings.wordpress.com/2023/12/19/fro…
1a. 'Human activities are having increasingly negative impacts on natural systems, and it is of interest to understand how the “pace” of parameter change may lead to catastrophic consequences.' pnas.org/doi/full/10.10…
1b. 'to avoid climate-change-induced species extinction, it would be necessary to ensure that no parameters change with time, and this may pose an extremely significant challenge in our efforts to protect and preserve the natural environment.' pnas.org/doi/full/10.10…
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