Thread by @ClimateBen

Have you heard the news?

1. Climate change speed is extreme.
2. Species can't adapt fast enough.
3. Tropical coral reefs will all die.
4. Oceans need millennia to recover.
5. Tropical forests are collapsing.
6. Arctic sea ice will disappear.

Everyone deserves to know the truth.

Explore these threads about the escalating existential threats of Ecological & Climate Catastrophe to discover what is happening and what we can do about it - and then start taking action now while it's still too late. 💚🕊️

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https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1163825604640366592?s=19

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…

'Birds and other animals cannot adapt fast enough to keep pace with climate change'.

eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2…

"We don't want to hear that ecosystems need thousands of years to recover from disruption, but it's critical that we understand the global need to combat modern climate impacts."nbcnews.com/science/enviro…

'What we found has grave implications for the long-term outlook of marine ecosystems should we tip the critical base of its food chain over the threshold of extinction.'

We're at the tipping point...

theconversation.com/ocean-ecosyste…

'most land animals will not be able to evolve quickly enough to adapt to the dramatically warmer climate... species face extinction, as a result.' theguardian.com/environment/20…

'fish species won't be able to evolve fast enough to keep up, so the likely impacts include significant local extinctions'

insideclimatenews.org/news/24042019/…