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The Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia are set to become 'so hot that human habitability is compromised' with 1.5°C to 2°C of global warming (set to occur between 2024 and 2036).

mpg.de/10481936/clima…
Climate breakdown will cause 'summer heat waves with levels of heat and humidity that EXCEED WHAT HUMANS CAN SURVIVE...

These deadly heat waves could begin within as little as a few decades to strike regions of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh'.

news.mit.edu/2017/deadly-he…
'At 2C, parts of southwest Asia, including well-populated regions of the Persian Gulf and Yemen, may become literally uninhabitable...'

'Some researchers predict a massive decline in the viability of food crops critical for human survival.'

e360.yale.edu/features/what_…
We were on track for 2°C by 2036 back in 2014.

Five and a half years later, and things are now even worse: emissions are *accelerating* with no sign of them decreasing rapidly anytime soon.

We're all set to smash past catastrophic 2°C in ~15 years time.
theconversation.com/limiting-globa…
As global warming hits 1.5°C

(between 2024 and 2030 newscientist.com/article/213073…),

many countries not hit by humid heatwaves too intense for human survival, will see tens of millions of people forced to move by sea level rise and/or storms and droughts.
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Ben See
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By the 2030s, Earth will have warmed ~2°C in the space of just 250 years.

It would appear that there is no record of ecosystems or species in the geologic past surviving this rate of change.

news.stanford.edu/news/2013/augu…
'most land animals will not be able to evolve quickly enough to adapt to the dramatically warmer climate expected by 2100. Many species face extinction, as a result.' theguardian.com/environment/20…
And ocean-dwelling species are disappearing from their habitats at twice the rate of those on land due to rapid climate change.

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Ben See
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Mangrove forests are being destroyed so quickly that the whole biome is set to vanish within decades with catastrophic consequences for life on Earth.
The mangrove biome spans over 137,760 km2 of coastal areas in 118 countries.

Nearly 50% has been destroyed since the 1950s.

The largest mangrove ecosystem in the world, The Sundarbans, is under threat from human exploitation and sea level rise. ⚠️

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Climate breakdown is wiping out underwater kelp forests with catastrophic consequences for life on Earth.
"The impact of losing the kelp forests would be the same as cutting down all the trees on the land.

All the animals would be affected.

It is the same in the oceans.

If we lose the physical structure of the habitat, we lose the ecosystems."

sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/…
"What is really concerning though, is that kelp forests living in warmer waters contain on average 3 times less carbon than those living in colder waters.

This suggests that future ocean warming will decrease the capacity of kelp forests to absorb carbon"
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