Thread by @ClimateBen

Remember:

🇮🇶 Iraq
🇸🇾 Syria
🇮🇷 Iran
🇱🇾 Libya
🇸🇩 Sudan
🇸🇴 Somalia
🇱🇧 Lebanon
🇦🇫 Afghanistan
🇾🇪 Yemen
🇩🇯 Djibouti
🇦🇪 UAE
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
🇪🇬 Egypt
🇳🇵 Nepal
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇧🇩 Bangladesh
🇮🇳 India
🇨🇳 China

will all start to become uninhabitable due to climate change by 2035.

1. The Middle East and North Africa are set to become 'so hot that human habitability is compromised' at 1.5°C - 2°C of global warming, between 2024 and 2036 according to scientists.

mpg.de/10481936/clima…

2. 'Heat waves with levels of heat and humidity that exceed what humans can survive...could begin within as little as a few decades to strike regions of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh' and eastern China (from 2017). news.mit.edu/2017/deadly-he…

3. '..We're going to take out seven countries in five years.' And he named them, starting with Iraq and Syria and ending with Iran."

...the hit list included Lebanon, Libya, Somalia and Sudan.'

We must end fossil fuel wars if we want to survive.

salon.com/2007/10/12/wes…

4. We were heading for 2°C by 2036 back in early 2014.

Six years later, and emissions are still rising and accelerating.

We'll hit 1.5°C by around 2028.

The latest IPCC climate models show 2°C by 2040.

theconversation.com/limiting-globa…