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5 Mar, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Remember:

1) Earth's climate is set to suddenly revert back to that of 3 million years ago by the 2030s

2) 18 of the 37 highly dangerous climate change tipping points in IPCC models will then be triggered

3) humans have never experienced anything like this

4) we can still act
Climates like those of the Pliocene as soon as 2030, likely by 2040 (Mid-Pliocene: 1.8°C-3.6°C).

'Both the emergence of geologically novel climates and the rapid reversion to Eocene-like climates may be outside the range of evolutionary adaptive capacity'!pnas.org/content/115/52…
We're heading for 1.8-1.9C, using a 1750 baseline, by the 2030s (or even using a 1850 baseline.. 2C by 2034 is shown as possible by climate models).

Global warming is happening faster than at almost any other time there has been animal life on the Earth.

We must
*end deforestation immediately
*slash carbon emissions

This is an ecological crisis caused by economic growth. We need a new system.

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It doesn't look like “absolute decoupling” of GDP from the total use of natural resources is possible.
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jasonhickel.org/blog/2018/9/14…

Rate of change:
Only immediate emergency system change could prevent what might be termed total catastrophe not least because the expanding mass extinction event is due in large part to for-profit industrial agriculture/fishing, logging etc which are annihilating habitats.

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2 Mar
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…
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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
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Ben See Profile picture
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.
Another thread on tree extinctions here:

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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
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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/…
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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.

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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.
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