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9 Aug, 5 tweets, 2 min read
This is going to be a difficult week. We’ll learn new truths about the climate emergency that will be terrifying in a way we haven’t yet felt.

But like my favorite climate essayist @MaryHeglar wrote, Home is Always Worth It.

medium.com/@maryheglar/ho…
You get to cry.
You get to grieve.
You get to be angry.
You get to take all the time you need to do these things.
You get to ask for help.
But you don’t get to give up.
We are learning from each other about how to struggle for systemic change on an impossible-but-necessary scale every day.
People have been doing this same thing for hundreds of years, all over the world, in every country.
What we’re doing now isn’t new.
We know how to do this.
There is so much worth saving. There is so much more to grow into that we can’t even imagine yet. And there always will be.

You’re not alone. You’re right where you need to be. And we’re doing this work together.
I'll be hosting live @TwitterSpaces chats this week about the IPCC report.

Monday: The science
Tuesday: Eco-anxiety
Wednesday: Social movements & rapid change
Thursday: Weather, climate & justice
Friday: IPCC AMA

Follow @currently for invites & times. 💚
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9 Aug
The era of rapid climate change has begun.

Both a rapid escalation of consequences, and a rapid escalation of solutions.

Time has run out for anything but radical change.

Here's my 🧵 summary of the new @IPCC_CH report:
thephoenix.substack.com/p/the-era-of-r…
Below, I'll pull out what struck me as the most important points of the new report.

The most important thing is what we do.

If you'd like to read the report yourself, the summary is short (42 pages) and understandable (the graphics are great, honestly) :
Every single sentence of the summary report has been unanimously approved by representatives from every country on Earth.
That makes this report a political document, one of the most important in history.
It’s meant to inform negotiations about how to solve the climate emergency.
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2 Aug
✨ A major update on @Currently ✨

Starting today, we're launching Founding Memberships.

We can't do this without you. We are in a climate emergency. And we were born at exactly the right time to change everything.

Become a Founding Member today, here:
buy.stripe.com/eVa4jy7qiaNpa1…
Founding Members will get a subscription to @Currently and everything we offer, plus a gift basket of founders-only merch. Founding members will also advise Currently, and help plot our direction forward — helping us to build a weather service that can truly change the world.
We'll only ever have 500 founding members. As a founding member, you'll literally make @Currently possible.

Currently members are our only source of funding. We are completely independent, ad-free, and member-funded. And our primary goal is to advance weather & climate justice.
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28 Jul
A 2.3 billion year old hunk of granite from the side of the road in Wyoming. Older than life on Earth.
*multicellular life
This one is also Precambrian, 3 billion years old
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21 Jul
Today’s air quality in New York City was the worst in more than 14 years. The concentration of fine particulate matter was seven times the @WHO's healthy limit.

The cause? A plume of smoke spanning the entire continent.

We are in a climate emergency.

getrevue.co/profile/curren… a smoky NYC skyline
And it wasn't just NYC.

The worst of the smoke stretched from western Canada to Minnesota to New England. Nearly every major city in the Northeast had dangerously unhealthy levels of air quality.

airnow.gov/national-maps/ air quality map from airnow.gov
Air pollution from burning fossil fuels kills more than 8 million people worldwide every year. That's more than the entire COVID-19 pandemic.

The fossil fuel industry is literally killing us, now. This is not a future issue. This is a climate emergency.

cnn.com/2021/02/09/wor….
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12 Jul
On Friday, Death Valley recorded the hottest day ever measured, anywhere in the world: High 130°F, Low 104°F, Ave 117°F.

Today was even hotter.

High 128°F, Low 108°F(‼️), Ave 118°F

We are in a climate emergency.
getrevue.co/profile/curren…
That overnight low of 108°F is still preliminary — the day isn't over yet after all.

If it holds (it will) it'll be the hottest night ever measured anywhere in the world outside of Oman (109°F).
cnn.com/travel/article…
That overnight low temperatures are warming worldwide more quickly than daytime highs is a telltale signal of climate change.

It's also making heat waves more deadly everywhere, because bodies don't have a chance to recover.
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10 Jul
Today's temperature of 130.0°F at Death Valley is the fourth-highest temperature ever recorded anywhere on Earth. All three higher temperatures are disputed.

If confirmed by @WMO, it would be the highest reliably-measured temperature in human history.

Today and tomorrow are expected to be even hotter in Death Valley.

This is climate change.

@currently has more:
getrevue.co/profile/curren…
Yesterday Death Valley hit 120°F at noon.

Today it hit 120°F before 11 a.m.

That puts Death Valley on track to beat yesterday's highest-reliably-measured-temperature-in-human-history of 130°F. current conditions at Death...
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