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‘Dead zones’ expanding rapidly in oceans as climate emergency causes unprecedented oxygen loss.

Study into issue impacting 100s of millions of people is yet another fucking ‘wake-up call’ for world leaders at COP25 who already know but don't give a fuck.independent.co.uk/environment/cl…
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Ben See
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'the saddest thing is that most children are not even aware of the fate that awaits us. We will not understand it until it’s too late. And yet we are the lucky ones. Those who will be affected the hardest are already suffering the consequences. But their voices are not heard.
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Around the year 2030...we will be in a position where we set off an irreversible chain reaction beyond human control, that will most likely lead to the end of our civilisation... unless...permanent and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society have taken place
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including a reduction of CO2 emissions by at least 50%.

And please note that these calculations are depending on inventions that have not yet been invented at scale, inventions that are supposed to clear the atmosphere of astronomical amounts of carbon dioxide.
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Ben See
@ClimateBen
East Siberian Arctic Shelf Horror:

1. subsea permafrost
2. not included in IPCC calculations
3. 'a monster in hiding'
4. life-ending 1256 ppm threat
5. 500-5000 gigatons of methane
6. sudden release possible
6. methane plumes now bubbling up
7."we do not like what we see there"
Truly terrifying:

A 50-square-foot area of the East Siberian Sea "boiling with methane bubbles."

"This is the most powerful seep I have ever been able to observe".

"No one has ever recorded anything similar."

commondreams.org/news/2019/10/0…
From 2011

"I am concerned about this process, I am really concerned. But no-one can tell the timescale of catastrophic releases. There is a probability of future massive releases might occur within the decadal scale..."

independent.co.uk/news/science/v…
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Ben See
@ClimateBen
Siberian Yedoma region:

1. permafrost melt beyond control
2. self-amplifying process
3. warming now hitting 3°C to 6°C
4. major methane release inevitable
5. 40 gigaton carbon-pulse danger
6. 'the melting of Yedoma is a tipping point: once it starts, there may be no stopping it'
from July 2013:

'A large region called the Yedoma could undergo runaway decomposition once it starts to melt. This is because elevated temperatures cause microbes in the soil to decompose, which causes heat, which creates a self-amplifying process.'

theconversation.com/methane-and-th…
Analysis led by the UK's Met Office recognised the 'plausibility of catastrophic carbon releases from Arctic permafrost thawing of between 50-100 Gt this century, with a 40 Gt carbon release from the Siberian Yedoma region possible over four decades'.

theguardian.com/environment/ea…
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💧simon holmes à court
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👇THREAD on @ScottMorrisonMP and #climate

no doubt the prime minister will have noticed the shift in the public mood, and the media, around climate change.

“climate and the environment” is literally top of mind.

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morrison can implore us not to discuss climate change while the country is on fire, but as the fire chiefs have tried to tell him, we have months of fires ahead of us — this is the new normal.

unless australia gets a lucky break, this fire season is morrison’s "port arthur".
if @ScottMorrisonMP seeks to be a great PM, he needs to rapidly pivot to real #climate leadership — meaningful words and meaningful deeds.

to be meaningful:
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Dr Kimberly Nicholas
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Agriculture is the most destructive human activity invented. Major cause of biodiversity loss, water and ocean pollution, climate pollution. @LennartLUCSUS says the root cause is using annual plants instead of perennials - a 10,000 year old mistake. Thread on his talk 👇🏽
@LennartLUCSUS Annual crops (cereals, oilseeds, legumes) are 80% of food. This means overturning soil and destroying its structure & life at least 1-2x/year. @LennartLUCSUS
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Christophe Barraud🛢
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🇩🇪 It confirms that German GDP likely ⬇ in 2Q while proxies pointed to the risk of another ⬇ in 3Q (technical recession).

This scenario would add pressure on #Germany to launch a stimulus package to support growth at both the national and 🇪🇺 level.

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Prof Julia S. 🌍🌱🌹 ClimateAction & FightFascism
@JKSteinberger
Another massive wake-up call on climate, this time from UN extreme poverty & human rights rapporteur @Alston_UNSR
“the enjoyment of all human rights by vast numbers of people is gravely threatened"
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Huge social & economic transformation necessary to preserve climate stability & human rights. Agree 💯.
“the need for the deep social and economic transformation, which almost all observers agree is urgent if climate catastrophe is to be averted”
Activism & advocacy are not optional to get from here to there: they are the only way forward. Timid technocratic policy advice was never sufficient to this challenge, which requires reshaping our power & economic structures completely. Let's get on with it ...
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Elizabeth Sawin
@bethsawin
One thing in the way of effective action on our #climate crisis (and our toxics crisis, our biodiversity crisis, our plastics in the ocean crisis, not to mention our violence, war, poverty, racism, & sexism crises) is a terrible misunderstanding of who/what we are.
Many people speak about this as a spiritual/moral crisis and I agree. But, the misunderstanding I want to talk about is at once simpler and more profound.
(Note - when I say 'we' I mean those of us acculturated into the western industrial growth mindset, which in evolutionarily relevant timescales has only been around for a fleeting instant. Humans haven't always thought this way, and not all humans alive today think this way.)
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Hannah Drake
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This is in Louisville, Kentucky. This is my friend’s son. Let’s be clear he was also teased and called the n-word. This is what happens when you allow bullying and racism to run rampant and provide PR for it instead of address it.

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When I go home this evening I have to find the strength to write an obituary for a 10 year old boy so miss me with your “both sides.”
Tami is the nicest person. As life would have it, I saw her in the grocery store that day and she paid for all my groceries. She was just determined to do something nice for me. It was my daughter’s birthday.
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