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1. Birds 🐦
2. Mammals 🦒
3. Fish 🐠
4. Amphibians 🐸
5. Reptiles 🐍
6. Insects 🐜
7. Crustaceans 🦀
8. Arachnids 🕷️
9. Pollinators 🐝
10. Flowers 🌷
11. Plants 🌿
12. Trees 🌲

are all endangered. 💔
'a million species now face extinction within decades, a rate of destruction 10s to 100s of times higher than the average over the past 10 million years'

State/corporate media blame 'humans' & 'human activity', but we know capitalism is killing everything.bbc.com/news/science-e…
The article blames humans as a species, rather than this modern empire of corporations we live in.

It ignores power dynamics, implying the 6 billion currently in poverty are more to blame than the tiny minority in power!

Look at those opening paragraphs..bbc.com/news/amp/scien…
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Ben See
@ClimateBen
Though the science suggests very strongly that Earth's systems are spinning madly towards a world in which it will be hard to survive, and politically things look bleak, it is illogical to assume nothing good will happen.

Here's one way I remind myself of this:
The 25 Year Rule is a helpful way of remembering that no matter how fcked things appear, we should think twice before predicting that the future will be worse.

It works like this:
Take a random year from the last 250 years. Imagine yourself in that year. Could you possibly have predicted exactly what was coming next?

So, take 1898. Could you have predicted what the world would be like in 1923?

Or 1773. Was the reality of 1798 clear?

Or 1964...to 1989?
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Ben See
@ClimateBen
Did you know?

1. In 2017 we had:

1% chance of staying below 1.5C
5% chance of staying below 2.0C

2. In 2020 climate models imply:

1.5C by 2023
2.0C by 2036

3. The Paris Agreement doesn't:

mention fossil fuels
define "pre-industrial levels”
reflect dire feedback acceleration
1.
'That’s a lot of numbers and data – so much that it could make even the most climate-literate head spin.'

What an excellent quote.

See here for 2017 chances of 1.5C and 2C, and discussion of baselines:

theconversation.com/why-is-climate…
2.
Latest climate models which will be used in the 2021 IPCC report show the climate system is more sensitive than thought.

Some scientists dispute these results, but 2C and 'environmental ruin' by 2036 was suggested in 2014 by M. Mann.

See this thread:
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Ben See
@ClimateBen
Good news: new research shows the Amazon Rainforest may not collapse and die until 3C - 4C of warming if we can stop deforestation.

Bad news: we're heading inevitably to 3C - 4C of warming and deforestation by corporations is triggering a fragmentation tipping point as we tweet.
There doesn't actually seem to be a great deal of new research showing the Amazon Rainforest will survive 1.5- 2.9C. I still suspect 1.9- 2.5C will kill off the forest with catastrophic consequences for most life on Earth.

Are we beyond the tipping point?news.mongabay.com/2018/02/tropic…
Thread on 3 - 4C.

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Darren Naish
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I have a love-hate relationship with the Common (or Ring-necked) pheasant, a species native to Asia and perhaps SE Europe but introduced in its MILLIONS to the UK. Here's a brief thread on this species and what it means for us in the UK... #birds #ornithology
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OluSamuelToday
@OlusamuelToday
#Remember
In Deuteronomy 8, Moses gave a very powerful speech. It was actually a Message. Moses told the children of Israel, and us by extension, in verse 2 to 'remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee'. #Remember
The greatest crime anyone of us will commit is to forget. We must #Remember all the way we were brought through because if we don't, we will misbehave and if we misbehave, we will suffer the consequences.
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So excited to attend today's @XercesSociety Pollinator Short Course in Brooklyn flic.kr/p/2dAenSH
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Today's Agenda:
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@XercesSociety #Pollinators
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@NJPrinsloo1
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Farmers are being slaughtered in the most horrific, inhumane, sadistic, barbaric ways. They are tortured until they die, women raped for hours on end while their husband's are forced to watch, their heads are crushed and they are set alight.
#FarmMurders
>Tortured with electrical drills
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Torture which would have earned applause from Spanish Inquisition Torturers. ISIS style atrocities.
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