Thread by @ClimateBen

Remember:

1. The sea floor is disintegrating.
2. The ocean food chain is doomed.
3. Soils will struggle to support life.
4. Forests 'won't be coming back'.
5. The Tropics will be uninhabitable.
6. Most species face extinction

Ok, enough reality.

Now back to mainstream media.

@SanaMeraj9 1. a catastrophic acidification feedback loop (due to carbon emissions) is dissolving the ocean floor, and unbalancing all ocean ecosystems on which we depend.

vice.com/en_us/article/…

@SanaMeraj9 2. “There will be a species collapse from the top of the food chain down.”

'Very few organisms are expected to be able to adjust to warmer waters and acidification...bigger fish will struggle to find enough food to eat.'
scmp.com/news/world/art…

@SanaMeraj9 3. "The reduced global ability of the land to sustain life is predicted to become an increasing problem with climate change"

If aridity levels are raised beyond a threshold of 0.8, the system collapses, plants cannot thrive and the land becomes desert.swansea.ac.uk/press-office/n…

@SanaMeraj9 4. 'It’s likely the forests won’t be coming back as we know them.'

'we're witnessing how global warming can push forest ecosystems past a point of no return.'

insideclimatenews.org/news/08012020/…

@SanaMeraj9 5a).

'Unprecedented climates will occur earliest in the tropics and among low-income countries...species-extinctions will soar there much faster and earlier'm.huffpost.com/us/entry/40897…

@SanaMeraj9 5b) and 6.

We're heading over 2C towards 3- 5C, meaning 'half of all animal and plant species' will perish.

'extinctions are projected to be 2 to 4 times more common in the tropics' where the 'majority of plant and animal species occur'...
independent.co.uk/environment/cl…