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@ClimateBen
Sep 18, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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1. the curve from sperm-decline meta-analysis predicts that by 2045 median sperm counts will reach zero (because of chemicals in plastics) with no evidence the trend is tapering off

2. by 2045 global warming of >2°C may subject humans to thermal infertility

We can act.🧵
1.
We can act on this:

'If you follow the curve from the 2017 sperm-decline meta-analysis, it predicts that by 2045 we will have a median sperm count of zero. It is speculative to extrapolate, but there is also ft no evidence that it is tapering off.'dumptheguardian.com/society/2021/m…
2.
'Even species thought to roam far away from these sources of pollution are suffering from chemical contamination. A female killer whale.. was found to be one of the most contaminated biological specimens ever reported. Scientists say she never calved.'theconversation.com/male-fertility…
3.
'research suggests males of some species can become infertile even at less extreme temperatures [2-2.25C?]

Whether our findings extrapolate to other species, including mammals such as humans, is not yet clear. It’s certainly possible, given evidence..'theconversation.com/fly-infertilit…
4. More on chemicals and 'Western' sperm counts:

racist, sexist, and Eurocentric ideas 'can get embedded in the categories that scientists use to analyze data'

research needs to be 'designed, executed, and communicated by people with varied perspectives'.slate.com/technology/202…

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Jun 21
Has capitalism left it too late to avoid hellish 2/2.5°C of global warming and rising?

Yes.

Can we adapt?

No.

Has the scientific community issued major consensus reports indicating political-economic systems changes are mandatory?

Yes.

Will journalists reveal this?

No.

🧵
The planet you think you're living on no longer exists. This Extinction Economy has set up conditions which scientists fear will prove unsurvivable for the majority of species within decades. Change this Doom-growth system now while it's still too late.
Global warming will happen faster than expected
Mass extinction media won't explain why we will hit 2/2.5°C by or before 2040-41. They are part of the state-corporate doom machine and don't want you researching clouds, aerosols, and climate sensitivity. Time to rethink to protect species and everyone.

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Jun 17
BREAKING: fears of catastrophe grow as Establishment scientists who organised IPCC's dangerously wrong climate assumptions begin to acknowledge they were wrong 🧵
1. Are Establishment figures really beginning to acknowledge their mistake? Scientists like Hansen, Simons, etc have been pointing out the likelihood of 2°C by the 2030s for a long time, but corporate journalists naturally refuse to investigate seriously.
2. Conservative scientists have insisted for years we should disregard models that show even more extreme warming should be anticipated (and sooner) than the already extreme warming previously expected.

carbonbrief.org/guest-post-how…
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May 10
Irreversible unsurvivable warming:

1.5-1.75°C by 2024-2026
1.75-2°C by 2029-2031
2-2.25°C by 2034-2036

Time's up.

Rethink human systems now to protect species and everyone while it's still too late.

🧵 1.75°C by 2030
State-corporate journalists/editors have ignored the latest climate models for years and years. They've had the information needed to warn the public for decades. Hellish two degrees and rising in the 2030s is nearly here.

System change to try to survive.
The Extinction Economy is wiping out life as we know it. 40-70% of species are at critical extreme risk of extinction within a few decades. Abrupt climate change is just one compounding factor in the annihilation of biodiversity and life as we know it.

🧵
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Apr 29
Scientists used to think utterly unsurvivable extremes wouldn't hit until 2081-2300 or later (or never). Now they fully expect abrupt global extinction horror by the 2040s.
1. 'What happens in the next two decades will very likely define the future of biodiversity and H. sapiens.' From 2023.

2.
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Mar 30
DOOM: For 250 years between 1720 and 1969, the US, UK, & Europe were the main CO2 emitters and the key wreckers of biodiversity. These criminal countries subsequently blocked any attempts to change the deeply entrenched economic system away from deadly capitalism and growth. Share of global CO2 emissions- Our World in Data
1. The US knew by the 1950s/60s that systems change was required to avoid global catastrophe. Scientists informed the President. However, the priorities remained power and wealth.

2.
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Mar 24
Earth's species will suffer global warming of 2, 2.5, or 3°C in 12 to 14 years. (No scientist really thinks we won't hit at least 1.96°C for the first time by 2038 after hitting 1.68°C in 2024.) Primates like humans are unlikely to survive for very much longer. Time to rethink.🧵 Headline excerpt : the world will see 3°C much faster than expected
1. "a rise in global temperatures of 3.1C is not compatible with human survival." @jeremycorbyn
Organise for political and economic system change action while it's still too late to protect species and everyone.
dumptheguardian.com/commentisfree/…
3°C trend from 2045.
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…
@jeremycorbyn 2.
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