Thread by @ClimateBen

Remember:

0.75°C in the 2000s
*cryosphere tipping points & feedbacks
*coral reefs suffer extreme damage

1°C in the 2010s
*permafrost feedbacks
*rainforest tipping points

1.5°C in the 2020s
*global food security risk
*40-60% of primates, trees, & pollinators face extinction

It turns out that the Greenland ice sheet hit a tipping point at the end of the twentieth century.

So where is the emergency action?

'a step-change which is unlikely to be reversible in the near future.'news.climate.columbia.edu/2020/09/02/gre…

'Until an El Niño event in 1982-83, mass bleaching at the scale of, say, the Caribbean basin or the Western Pacific or the Indian Ocean was unheard of. The first completely global bleaching event was in 1998..the first time the Great Barrier Reef..bleached'e360.yale.edu/features/insid…

'Thawing permafrost is an especially dangerous amplifying feedback loop because the global permafrost contains twice as much carbon as the atmosphere does today .'thinkprogress.org/dangerous-perm…

'The Amazon Tipping Point is here, say leading climate scientist Carlos Nobre and renowned conservation biologist Thomas Lovejoy.. The tipping point’s arrival could mean a rapid rainforest die-off — releasing massive amounts of carbon to the atmosphere..'news.mongabay.com/2019/12/the-ti…

'agriculture continues to absorb a disproportionate share of the damage and loss wrought by disasters. Their growing frequency and intensity, along with the systemic nature of risk, are upending people’s lives.. and jeopardizing our entire food system.'fao.org/documents/card…

Species extinction rates are 100 - 1000 times higher than normal due to capitalism impacts. Insects will likely make up the bulk of future biodiversity loss with 40% of invertebrate pollinator species – particularly bees & butterflies – facing extinction.fao.org/pollination/ba…

'more than 60% of primate species are threatened with extinction mainly due to human[CAPITALISM]activities, such as habitat loss, hunting, illegal trade, climate change and disease.' theconversation.com/primates-are-f…

'threatened species in need of immediate action to prevent them becoming extinct..'

'more than half of the species (58%).. vulnerable to potential threats, such as deforestation from extreme weather events or human activity' during capitalism.
bbc.com/news/science-e…

Primates are 'essential to tropical rainforests, pollinating trees and dispersing seeds across these vital carbon stores.' theconversation.com/60-of-primate-…

Arctic permafrost contains approximately twice the amount of carbon that is currently in the Earth's atmosphere, and is releasing that carbon into the atmosphere as it thaws.
Current carbon budgets fail to account for these carbon emissions from permafrost'eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2…

“I think 2019 is regarded as a really bad year for the Brazilian Amazon. 2020 got less press and attention but it was just as bad, if not worse".

reuters.com/article/us-env…

“You’re losing 10-20% of your animals over a single decade and that is just absolutely frightening. You’re tearing apart the tapestry of life.

..there’s one really big unknown and that’s climate change – that’s the one that really scares me the most.”

msn.com/en-nz/news/wor…

The causes of the decline of butterflies are thought to be similar in most countries, mainly habitat loss and degradation and chemical pollution. Climate change is allowing many species to spread northward while bringing new threats to susceptible species. pnas.org/content/118/2/…