Scientists surprised by the news that we're not at 1.1°C of warming but nearer 1.5°C may wish to reflect on some of their assumptions!? 😬

Will corporate journalists now stop repeatedly misinforming us with statements saying we're 'about 1C higher' than pre-industrial levels? Image
'land areas have warmed a much larger amount – by 1.9C on average' 😱

carbonbrief.org/state-of-the-c… Image
Example from just 10 months ago

'With global temperatures already about 1C higher than pre-industrial levels, Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef has been through three mass bleaching events in only five years'

It was clear last April we were around 1.2-1.4C.dumptheguardian.com/environment/20…
We're heading deeper and deeper into profound ecological catastrophe due to the political and economic activities of humans during capitalism (industrial agriculture, logging, mining, overkilling of species for profit, etc) and now we risk 2C by 2030-45.

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28 Feb
scientists: primates are being driven to extinction by market demands leading to massive habitat loss through expanding industrial agriculture, large-scale cattle ranching, logging, drilling, mining, dam building, & road construction

media: let's keep this fine economic system
'Globally, agriculture is the principal threat, but secondary threats vary by region.'

🔺This isn't a 'climate' emergency, it's an economic growth emergency, a capitalism catastrophe ('there are also emerging threats, such as pollution and climate change')advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/1/e1…
Is food production primarily about feeding people (4.2 billion people undernourished, 20 - 45% of food produced is lost/wasted), or making vast amounts of money for a small group of ultra-wealthy people (there are 2,000 - 3,000 billionaires and 5 - 6 billion live in poverty)? Image
Read 6 tweets
27 Feb
Remember:

1. Trees face extinction.
2. Ecosystems are unstable.
3. Crops are vulnerable.
4. Pollinators risk extermination.
5. Water supplies are shrinking.
6. Soils are dying.
7. Primates may not survive.
8. Forever Chemicals are in our blood.

None of this is front page news.
Read 10 tweets
27 Feb
Is global warming of +2C now unavoidable and likely to occur by 2029-2038 without emergency system change causing the demise of forests, putting world agriculture at high risk, and triggering 1.75-2.25m of sea level rise within decades leaving the world's major cities underwater?
1.

"we need to reduce emissions as quickly as possible - if we do that, we will still break 2C, but it will be hundreds of years in the future."

independent.co.uk/climate-change…
2.

Using a 1850 baseline (or 1750 baseline, my rough estimate) we might expect 2C between 2034 (2029) and 2052 (2047) in the highest emissions scenario, with a median year of 2043 (2038).

Modest mitigation: as early as 2038 (2033) with median 2052 (2047).carbonbrief.org/analysis-when-…
Read 8 tweets
27 Feb
Now we know scientists are projecting severe climate disruption and ecosystem collapse by around 2038 which will make it hard for every human to live we can start making some informed decisions together regarding how to create rapid emergency worldwide system change for survival.
At 2C “you are having impacts on most people, impacts on the market, that make it hard for everyone to live"
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washingtonpost.com/climate-soluti…

2C likely exceeded as early as:

2034 (highest emissions scenario, median 2043)

2038 (modest mitigation, median 2052)⬇️carbonbrief.org/analysis-when-…
Major ecosystems like the Great BarrierReef have already started to collapse.

Collapse in the 2020s & 2030s and beyond.
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insideclimatenews.org/news/08042020/…
Read 4 tweets
25 Feb
African, Southeast Asian, and South American Rainforests are now approaching, at, or beyond the point of collapse, and will suffer from a totally new climate of unprecedented heat from 2025, 2027, and 2028 onwards with staggering consequences for all life on Earth.

[THREADS] 👇
Corporations and governments are driving the destruction of Earth's tropical forests.

Only immediate emergency system change would give us any reasonable chance of stopping the annihilation of the world’s forests.
Read 6 tweets
25 Feb
South American Rainforests will suffer from a totally new climate of unprecedented heat from 2028 onwards with staggering consequences for all life on Earth.
This 2013 study projects years of 'climate departure' on our current high emissions path:

La Paz Bolivia & Paramaribo Suriname 2028
Georgetown Guyana 2029
Bogotá Colombia 2033
Quito Ecuador & Caracas Venezuela 2034
Lima Peru 2038
Brasilia Brazil 2047
nature.com/articles/natur…
'Tropical forests are guardians against runaway climate change, but their ability to remove CO2 from the atmosphere is wearing down.' The Amazon, which accounts for +50% of the world’s rainforest cover, 'is on the verge of turning into a carbon source.'news.mongabay.com/2021/01/amazon…
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