The latest IPCC climate report has just been issued, and it is truly dire.
If we take drastic measures =now=, it is possible (not at all certain) we may be able to hold global temperature rise below 2 degrees C.
That doesn't sound like much. It is.
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ipcc.ch/report/sixth-a…
If we take drastic measures =now=, it is possible (not at all certain) we may be able to hold global temperature rise below 2 degrees C.
That doesn't sound like much. It is.
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ipcc.ch/report/sixth-a…
Let me scare you with how bad 2C is.
During the height of the last Ice Age maximum, the world was only about 2C =colder= than it was in the 1950s. A difference of 2C is the difference between half of the world covered under a mile of ice, and the climate we all grew up in.
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During the height of the last Ice Age maximum, the world was only about 2C =colder= than it was in the 1950s. A difference of 2C is the difference between half of the world covered under a mile of ice, and the climate we all grew up in.
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What 2C =warmer= means is hard to understand, but it will inevitably be a difference on the same scale.
Humans have never lived in that world. Much bigger deserts, immense coastal flooding, wars over fresh water, literally billions of displaced climate refugees.
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Humans have never lived in that world. Much bigger deserts, immense coastal flooding, wars over fresh water, literally billions of displaced climate refugees.
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Our civilization as it is cannot possibly handle it. This doesn't necessarily mean the collapse of civilization, but it does mean enormous changes we aren't prepared for and don't understand.
An increase of 2C is likely to happen by the end of THIS century, maybe by 2050.
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An increase of 2C is likely to happen by the end of THIS century, maybe by 2050.
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A century is not a long time. I've lived well over half a century already.
Anyone born this year will be less than 80 years old in the year 2100. It's only a little farther away than we are from the Second World War.
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Anyone born this year will be less than 80 years old in the year 2100. It's only a little farther away than we are from the Second World War.
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Think about that, if the timescale of the coming climate catastrophe seems like a long time. It's not. YOU will live to see these catastrophes happen--if you live.
And if we don't act, you will live to see things far worse than 2C.
You really should be scared.
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And if we don't act, you will live to see things far worse than 2C.
You really should be scared.
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And remember who is standing in the way of doing anything. Republicans insist it isn't happening at all.
#VoteBlue to save the world.
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#VoteBlue to save the world.
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