We need to connect the dots of the crazy, unprecedented, record-shattering weather events happening right now across the world.

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In the Pacific North West, temperature records are being obliterated.

Flash flooding across the south of Germany.

Moscow's infrastructure also buckling under the weight of flash floods.

Heatwaves scorching Siberia - yes, Siberia - and Eastern Europe.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Italy also experienced a remarkable heatwave in June

thelocal.it/20210624/south…
It's warm enough to be raining high up on the Greenland ice sheet, which needs to remain as ice for our coastal cities to survive.

Right around the Northern hemisphere the weather patterns have gone nuts. It's because the global jet stream is bent completely out of whack.

@MichaelEMann explains:

nytimes.com/2021/06/29/opi…
This looks like the start of an exponential increase in extreme weather events - worse than the models predicted.

All this at just over 1°C of heating. We're heading for something like 3°C. We must now move into survival mode which means emergency decarbonisation.

#ActNow

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