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*BREAKING*

🔥8,000 koalas burnt to death in New South Wales, Australia - extinction looms

🔥480 million animals dead in climate change horror bushfires

🔥9 people dead

🔥global ecological collapse now underway

Media refuse to report existential threat.standard.co.uk/news/world/aus…
"To all the newspapers that still don't write and report on climate change...your silence is the worst of all" ~@GretaThunberg

Trillions of insects, mammals, birds & amphibians will be wiped out by habitat destruction, pesticides & climate change by 2035.
By 2025-2035, global warming will hit catastrophic levels even if emissions are reduced according to scientists.

Emissions must stop in the 2020s to avoid total catastrophe.

The oceans, rivers & forests must be allowed to recover if humans are to survive.
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Ben See
@ClimateBen
Governments and corporations are committing crimes against humanity and nature by knowingly preparing the production of enough fossil fuels in the next decade to cause the destruction of most species.

nationalobserver.com/2019/11/20/new…
At 3.2°C most species would not survive.

Only decarbonisation in the 2020s could give us a small chance of avoiding this in the coming decades.

vice.com/en_in/article/…
47% of insect species, 26% of vertebrate and 16% of plant species will lose 'at least half of their geographic ranges' at 3.2°C.

See thread:
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Ben See
@ClimateBen
Catastrophic global warming of between 3°C to 4°C is now probably locked in according to experts.

#ClimateEmergency

phys.org/news/2019-04-d…
A range (incomplete so far) of the most recent IPCC models shows 2°C by 2040, followed by 3°C- 4°C around 2060- 2080.

If this is correct, humans face a staggering, almost unthinkable catastrophe within decades.

See thread: 👇
See here for scientists' opinions regarding 3°C - 4°C of calamitous warming.
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Remember, between 2°C - 3°C likely means the death of tropical corals and the Amazon Rainforest, as well as other major ecosystems. ⚠️
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Ben See
@ClimateBen
Mangrove forests are being destroyed so quickly the whole biome is set to vanish within just a few decades.

More than 2% of mangrove forests are destroyed each year.

Nearly 50% have already been wiped out.

Extinction looms for amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds.
The mangrove biome spans over 137,760 km2 of coastal areas in 118 countries.

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

nature.com/articles/srep2…
The worst mass dieback of mangroves ever recorded: 2015, the Gulf of Carpentaria (cause: extreme heat/temporary drop in sea level/drought).

Then, in 2018: devastating impacts of 2 cyclones created a 400km stretch of dead & damaged mangroves.

theguardian.com/environment/20…
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Leah McElrath 🏳️‍🌈
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“It is too late to leave.”

Warnings for various parts of New South Wales in Australia have been being posted several times an hour throughout the day.

Global warming is contributing to out-of-control brush fires extending a thousand miles along the coast.

#NSWfires 🧵1/x
To give Americans, Canadians, and Europeans a sense of how extensive the fires are, below is a map showing location of only New South Wales (there are other brush fires throughout Australia) brush fires, along with maps overlaying Australia on the US and Europe.

#NSWfires 🧵2/x
This single bush fire near a coastal town called Bermagui covers around 250 square miles.

Residents of affected areas were told to flee their homes around dawn today (Australia time) and to take shelter on the beach.

Videos in the next couple of tweets.

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Sophie Lewis
@aviandelights
Here's a brief summary of some of the our Australian #climate extremes research since 2013, a year that has nothing to do with any particular events, government or ideology
Australia's then record hot 2012/2013 summer was made substantially more likely because of climate change agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
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Brian Adam 💧
@briancadam3
Koalas, a thread 🐨

#ExtinctionRebelion #Koala #FunctionallyExtinct #KoalasDeserveBetterThanThis
As long as I can remember I’ve stood up for what I know is right. I’ve spent countless hours, days, years even, trying to be a voice for those without and break free from traditional ways of doing. I’ve coped my fair share of backlash from friends, family and strangers for this.
But there comes a time when enough is enough. There comes a time when you pick up your phone, tap into the internet and stop to ask yourself, is this all worth it? #ExtinctionRebelion
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Patrick Galey
@patrickgaley
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
Under Paris, countries agreed to a fairly detailed set of promises to keep global temperature rises under 2C by 2100.

It was the first time all nations - both developed and developing economies - signed up to the same set of climate rules. But they weren't binding
Parties gave themselves in effect 3 years to come up with a text agreed by everyone, ratified, and translated into national law on a state-by-state basis. The idea is the accord isn't legally binding, but the rulebook it provides could be on a national level
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The Conversation
@ConversationEDU
#Australia should have same-sex marriage legalised by #Christmas after an overwhelming 61.6% “yes” vote in the voluntary postal ballot, to 38.4% for the “no” side.
#marriagequality #samesexmarriage
#YesForEquality
Let's look at the numbers #thread
theconversation.com/australians-vo…
After the decisive result, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull declared it was now up to parliament to “get this done”, as the result triggered celebrations across the nation by the supporters of change.
Click through to interact with the map + see how your electorate voted:

theconversation.com/australians-vo…
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