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Aug 24, 2019 5 tweets 2 min read Read on X
Climate Emergency Plan:

1. Plant a few trees; destroy forests.
2. Wind & solar; drill the Arctic.
3. Tasty fake meat; more pesticides.
4. Electric buses; aviation boom.
5. Ban plastic straws; 5G.
6. CO₂ tax; private geoengineering.

The Extinction Economy: contempt for science.
Interference from 5G wireless phones could reduce the accuracy of weather forecasts by 30%.

That reduction would give coastal residents 2 or 3 fewer days to prepare for a hurricane, and could lead to incorrect predictions of the storms’ final path to land.grist.org/article/5g-net…
'Electromagnetic radiation from power lines, wi-fi, phone masts and broadcast transmitters poses a ‘credible’ threat to wildlife, a new report suggests, as environmentalists warned the 5G roll out could cause greater harm.'

telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/0…
Smartphones Are Killing The Planet Faster Than Anyone Expected:

'Researchers are sounding the alarm after an analysis showed that buying a new smartphone consumes as much energy as using an existing phone for an entire decade'.

This seems relevant.

fastcompany.com/90165365/smart…

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More from @ClimateBen

Jul 24
BREAKING: scientists now fully expect global warming levels severe enough to harm all sectors of civilization including food and water within a decade or two as the world's biggest all-time emitters the US and UK refuse to stop fossil fuel expansion 🧵
1. Scientists project 1.9- 2°C by the 2030s or 2040s.

In the 2010s, scientists agreed 2°C would mean harm/dislocations for civilization. In 2022, the IPCC's AR6 report showed extreme impacts at 2°C will be even worse than previously expected.

carbonbrief.org/analysis-what-…
2. 'countries including the UK, the US.. are increasingly being thought of by some experts as the “other petrostates”

'Just five global north governments – the US, the UK, Australia, Canada and Norway – are responsible for a majority of planned expansion..dumptheguardian.com/environment/ar…
Read 12 tweets
Jul 23
BREAKING: mass media stay silent as climate scientists all agree economic growth means Earth's species face the threat of dire 1.75- 2°C of global warming by the 2030s 🧵
1. Conservative estimates imply threat of >1.7°C by the 2030s.

James Hansen warns of 2°C.

'This high rate of warming is caused by a combination of greenhouse gas emissions being close to an all-time high and a reduction in the cooling impacts of aerosols'carbonbrief.org/guest-post-tra…
2. Conservative projections show 2°C as early as 2037. Species like humans reach limits of adaptation at this point. (Tropical ecosystems wrecked at 1.5°C.)

Change this Extinction Economy now to protect species and everyone now while it's still too late.
carbonbrief.org/analysis-what-…
Read 6 tweets
Jul 18
BREAKING:  climate scientists fear the worst after discovering Earth's plants and soils stopped absorbing CO₂ last year 🧵
1. 'Collapse of the land carbon sink in 2023..

plants and soils absorbed almost no CO2 last year'

'we may see a rapid acceleration of CO2 and global warming.. unforeseen in future climate models projections'

'ugly consequences'



arxiv.org/abs/2407.12447
2. Organise political and economic system change now to protect species and everyone.

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Jul 16
BREAKING: scientists confirm rapid deoxygenation of oceans, lakes, rivers, and streams is now a threat to the stability of life on Earth 🧵
1. 'ongoing deoxygenation presents a major threat to the livelihoods of large parts of society and for the stability of life on our planet'

Causes of oxygen loss:

global warming due to greenhouse gas emissions

input of nutrients as a result of land use

phys.org/news/2024-07-l…
2. 'Planetary boundaries represent thresholds in major Earth system processes that are sensitive to human activity and control global-scale habitability and stability

critical oxygen thresholds are being approached at rates comparable to other.. processes'
Read 4 tweets
Jul 2
An amazing news story totally ignored by state-corporate media: according to even the most conservative and optimistic consensus assumptions there had to be 'immediate action' years ago at the very latest with emissions peaking and falling by now to avoid utterly catastrophic 2C.
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For 1.5C, 2025 greehouse gas emissions would be 20-30% lower than 2020 levels, and between 10-20% lower for 2C.

Emissions are higher than ever in July 2024.

This Extinction Economy means 2.5/3°C by the 2040s or soon after.
Read 4 tweets
Jul 2
BREAKING: scientists warn we're beginning to feel the effects of a geologically instantaneous 21st century shift into extreme and unsurvivable conditions 🧵
1. 'We are starting to feel the effects of transitioning to a hothouse climate (ΔT  +4-5 °C) in a geological instant'

The global change happening now is potentially like the Permian extinction which occurred in just a few centuries.

phys.org/news/2018-09-e…
2. "In my view it is impossible to survive that sort of change (4°C by 2100). That is beyond human physiology. But that is the trajectory we are on now.. No matter what we do with all the whiz-bang technology.. physiologically we cant survive that."

News?
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