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Remember:

1. Feedback loops are out of control
2. Emissions are accelerating wildly
3. Trillions of animals, plants will die
4. Ecological collapse has begun
5. Climate chaos is set to kill billions
6. Fossil fuel firms must go extinct

None of this is front page news.
1. Climate breakdown is now irreversible:
telegraph.co.uk/science/2019/0…

2. Feedback loops were triggered years ago at 1°C:
news.yahoo.com/its-already-be…

3. Earth is set to be 'a largely unlivable planet' within decades.
vice.com/en_us/article/…

#EcologicalEmergency
We're in trouble.

The world marked record highs of emissions in 2018, and will do so again in 2019.

'turning the corner on emissions remains nowhere in sight.'
Climate change may be happening too quickly for most species.

'local extinctions (when a species goes extinct in a particular area, but still exists elsewhere) are already occurring in 47% of the 976 species studied' in every kind of habitat/climatic zone.blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2018/03/30/hel…
'Local extinctions related to climate change are already widespread, even though levels of climate change so far are modest relative to those predicted in the next 100 years. These extinctions will presumably become much more prevalent..'

1.5°C by 2026? ⚠️journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…
Biological Annihilation:

🔺Earth’s sixth mass extinction is more severe than perceived when looking exclusively at species extinctions...

🔺the rate of population loss in terrestrial vertebrates is extremely high—even in “species of low concern.” ⚠️

pnas.org/content/114/30…
Only 1 billion people could survive a 4C Earth:
climatecodered.org/2019/08/at-4c-…

4C by 2040s?
pnas.org/content/114/39…

5C - 6C 'enough to wipe out most life on the planet'
truthout.org/articles/killi…

5C- 6C by 2065?
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2016:
independent.co.uk/news/science/c…

IPCC model 2019:
france24.com/en/20190917-ea…
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders' plan for tackling the climate crisis 'includes perhaps the strongest call yet for holding fossil fuel companies accountable for climate change–-including pursuing criminal liability.'

climateliabilitynews.org/2019/08/23/san…
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Ben See
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Remember:

🔺Greenhouse gas emissions had to peak and start falling sharply by August 2019 to avoid catastrophe.

🔺Emissions are accelerating.

🔺Feedback loops are beyond our control.

🔺Billions dead by 2050s at 4°C.

🔺Your government knows this.theguardian.com/environment/20…
⚠️ From 2009 ⚠️:

❗"We've always talked about these very severe impacts only affecting future generations, but people alive today could live to see a 4°C rise."

❗"People will say it's an extreme scenario, and it is an extreme scenario, but it's also a plausible scenario."
How soon is now?

⚠️ From Sept 2009: ⚠️

'a 4C rise could come by 2060 or 2070, depending on the feedbacks. Betts said: "It's important to stress it's not a doomsday scenario, we do have time to stop it happening if we cut greenhouse gas emissions soon."'

Do we still have time?
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Ben See
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Remember:

1. methane fountains in Siberia
2. ultrarapid typhoon intensification
3. strongest hurricanes ever
4. hottest Arctic heatwaves ever
5. hottest September ever
6. hottest summer ever
7. hottest month in world history

The planet we think we're living on no longer exists.
Explore these threads for extraordinary details on this climate and ecological catastrophe.

Only total political/economic system change can limit the damage now.
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This could kill billions by the 2040s.

We must stop all emissions by 2029.

commondreams.org/news/2019/10/0…
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Ben See
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1/

'If XR had listened to the many movements rising in the global south for decades, it would have adopted the politics of anti-racism, feminism, and global justice not only as a matter of morality, but as a matter of strategy.'

@TatGaravito @n_thanki

vice.com/amp/en_us/arti…
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If #ExtinctionRebellion is to succeed, it will need to more clearly echo #ClimateJustice voices like those from @wretchedotearth, @WarOnWant, @gcdcj and so many others. Many individuals and local groups would agree with me on that, but it needs to become central/widespread.
3/
I was delighted to support #ExtinctionRebellion as soon as it appeared on the scene as I was sure it was a way of transforming public awareness, just as I was sure that #FridaysForFuture had the potential to have an enormous global impact. This has been the case.
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Just returned from Bangkok, where nations made little progress towards finalising the Paris agreement on climate change that aims to limit global temperature rises over the next 80 years.

It was my first @UN #climate change rodeo and there were a few things I wasn't aware of
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April’s monthly average atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration breached 410 parts per million.

The last time that happened, humans didn’t exist.
grist.org/article/humans…
Not only are carbon dioxide levels rising each year, they are accelerating. Carbon dioxide is climbing at twice the pace it was 50 years ago. Even the increases are increasing.
In little more than a century of frenzied fossil fuel burning, we humans have altered our planet’s atmosphere at a rate dozens of times faster than natural climate change.

We are fast approaching the extremes of what we know ecosystem can handle.
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Good questions @RedsforNamesake. If confronting #climate change is your priority, it is imperative to ramp up carbon-free energy asap.

1. NJ will now ramp up renewable energy from 13% in 2017 and 20% by 2020 under old RPS to 35% by 2025 & 50% by 2030. Impressive leadership.
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