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Global warming of 1.7C:

1. over 100 million refugees
2. unsurvivable heat
3. permafrost calamity
4. ice free Arctic
5. vast regions uninhabitable
6. unprecedented crop failures
7. water crises for most of humanity
8. a wave of cascading extinctions

All by 2029.

Media?

Silent.
We could yet reorganise human society & transform the global economy to try to avoid 1 & 7, but we must face reality:

-this is the fastest rate of climate change in 65 million years

-corporations are still obliterating habitats & ecosystems.

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We're heading into an extraordinarily dangerous 2C world by 2035 - 2040, or even earlier.

Scientists acknowledge this possibility, corporate media remain silent.

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We're already at 1.3C/1.4C of warming. The rate of change is around 0.3C per decade, but 2C by 2029 is far from being impossible.

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We are already in a climate refugee and poverty emergency, and have been for decades.

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Ben See
@ClimateBen
Our only chance of surviving this ecological crisis of climate change, pandemics, and ecosystem collapse is to accept that it won't end. By demonstrating that things will get worse before they get worse, we can show people that dramatic system change is now the only way forward.
The rate of climate change alone is enough to show that only a total transformation of the global economy will allow decent survival in the coming decades.
Change is coming, that's for sure :
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Ben See
@ClimateBen
Did you know?

1. Scientists studying the Arctic say it has shifted into an unprecedented state and now threatens global climate stability

2. Scientists studying the Amazon Rainforest say it has hit its tipping point

3. Scientists studying coral reefs say they'll soon be dead
1.
Irreversible, accelerating Arctic sea ice melt.

See thread for quotes from Arctic scientists:
2.
“We are scientists who have been studying the Amazon and all its wondrous assets for many decades. Today, we stand exactly in a moment of destiny: The tipping point is here, it is now.”

news.mongabay.com/2019/12/the-ti…
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Ben See
@ClimateBen
Scientists: global food systems are set to collapse by 2027

UN: global food systems are set to collapse by 2027

Business academics: global food systems are set to collapse by 2027

Media: we'll focus on global food system collapse in 2027 if it happens BUT NOT A MOMENT BEFORE
From 2012

"A real threat to food security"

"drought risk brought on by climate change could be felt in the next 10-15 years"

"we cannot wait for actions to address the changes in the physical climate if we want to..limit impact on global food security"futurity.org/next-10-years-…
Luc Gnacadja, executive secretary of the United Nations Convention on Desertification:

"If we cannot find a solution to this problem...in 2025, close to 70% [of the planet's soil] could be affected...There will not be global security without food security"insideclimatenews.org/news/20091020/…
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“The problem is that the Russian supply icebreaker became bogged in ‘the dense sea ice of the #Arctic’ and now ‘is making little progress’. The ice has been too thick for the Russian ice breaker to make its way as planned.”

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Filomena Rocha
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The Amazon the largest lung in our world is on fire😭.
It's time for humanity to stop & think seriously about what it is doing🤨.
Is this our legacy for future generations😠?
Is money more important than conserving nature😡?
🗣️We need the forests to survive.
🗣️Protect nature!
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Another Blow Against Climate Change-Major Greenland Glacier Growing (Al Gore In Mourning?) lidblog.com/greenland-glac… via @yidwithlid
As with most of the climate change computer models, when one actually “looks out the window” to see what is really happening we learn that “Mother Nature” has more influence than software.
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"[...] [C]limate scientists from around the world argued that the planet may be much closer than previously realized to locking in what they call a 'hothouse' trajectory—warming of 4C ..." bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Climate change mitigation and adaptation methods should be a priority for everyone politically and socially right now. Why? We are near a breaking point that cannot be undone, one that determines the longevity of humanity and planet Earth. We have to demand change.
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Thangam Debbonaire
@ThangamMP
Anyone who missed the piece earlier on @BBCr4today about #refugees on #lesbos please know there are many thousands of people crammed in appalling conditions into a camp intended for 2000, violence, little sanitation, NGOs reporting conditions to authorities but nothing changes.
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InsideClimate News
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1/ Nuiqsut is the only town in Alaska's prolific North Slope oil region, which is poised for another drilling boom.

The community has long been concerned about industry air pollution. There is reason to be anxious.

@shankman reports from the #Arctic: insideclimatenews.org/news/01082018/…
2/ "I was really stunned when I was up there in July [2017] to hear the fears that are so pervasive in the community that it even impacts the teenagers," said Barbara Trost of @alaskaDEC.
3/ More than three-quarters of Nuiqsut residents still live a traditional subsistence life, off the fish they catch, the whales they harvest and the caribou they hunt.

And they've found themselves on the frontlines of a modern crisis.
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