Thread by @ClimateBen

Welcome to Earth. 🔥

"It's very possible that both ecological systems and human systems may fail to adapt rapidly enough, with devastating consequences"

"this is a problem for now...in the next decade or two, we may see climates like that of the Pliocene"edition.cnn.com/2018/12/10/wor…

'we are marching inexorably towards a “point of no return,” into territory that is unknown for the human race.'
climate.nasa.gov/climate_resour…

Outside the range of evolutionary adaptive capacity? ⚠️

Pliocene-like conditions by the 2030s:

'Both the emergence of geologically novel climates and the rapid reversion to Eocene-like climates may be outside the range of evolutionary adaptive capacity'pnas.org/content/115/52…

Between 1°C and 2°C, most species, ecosystems and landscapes will be impacted and adaptive capacity will become limited.

With the already ongoing high rate of climate change, the decline in biodiversity will therefore accelerate.

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The planet we think we're living on no longer exists:

🔺Earth will warm 2°C to 6°C within decades

🔺It took 5,000 years to warm 5°C when global warming happened at various times in the past 2 million years

🔺predicted warming rate: 20 times faster.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/Globa…