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'Half or more Americans think global warming will harm people in the U.S. (62%), people in developing countries (66%), the world’s poor (67%), future generations of people (73%), and plant & animal species (73%)'

Media performance remains the key issue
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 climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/c…
'About half of Americans (47%) say they hear about global warming in the media at least once a month.'

As little as once a month, and what is the framing?!

The silence is still deafening. How many Americans have been allowed/encouraged to grasp ecosystem collapse happening now?
'Global warming is about to tear big holes into Earth's delicate web of life, pushing temperatures beyond the tolerance of thousands of animals at the same time. As some key species go extinct, entire ecosystems like coral reefs and forests will crumble..'
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Harold Wanless, director of the University of Miami’s geological sciences department and a leading expert on sea level rise, fears that a variety of feedback loops will contribute to a dramatic increase in sea level in the coming decades.

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“My work on ancient climate shows we have these rapid pulses of rise that are rather dramatic, up to 10 meters of sea level rise certainly within a century, and that’s a really rapid disintegration of ice,” Wanless said. news.yahoo.com/amphtml/its-al…
“We’re just seeing the beginning of ice melt and the beginning of the warming of the waters reaching up to the Arctic, in what is most certainly going to be the beginning of one of these rapid pulses.”

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“I would think of the summer ice disappearing as the true tipping point we’ve all been afraid of..."

Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, discoverer of role of CFCs in amplifying global warming and destroying the ozone layer

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'The reason Arctic ice is shrinking so fast, and why scientists are worried about it continuing, is one and the same.

There is a well-known feedback loop in the Arctic, caused by the reflectivity of ice and the darkness of the ocean.'

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'When the Arctic Ocean is covered by lighter, white ice, it reflects more sunlight back to space. But when there is less ice, more heat gets absorbed by the darker ocean — warming the planet further. That warmer ocean then inhibits the growth of future ice...'

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Did you know?

1. “Temperature increases beyond 1C may elicit rapid, unpredictable and non-linear responses that could lead to extensive ecosystem damage.”

2. '2C would be enough to threaten life as we know it.'

3. We're set to go over 2C of global warming by the 2040s

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The quotes come from this 2017 article.

“The consequences of failing to keep the temperature below 1.5C will be to wilfully condemn hundreds of millions of the poorest citizens of Earth to certain deaths from the severe impacts of climate change.”

amp.theguardian.com/environment/20…
From 2016: "I think it is fair to say that there is literally no chance of making the 1.5C target".

'Earth is on track to sail past the two degree Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) threshold for dangerous global warming by 2050'.

phys.org/news/2016-09-g…
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