Thread by @SteB777

"It is time for us to listen to the warnings of the scientists ..."

Boris Johnson Sept 21.

Presumably this means Boris Johnson agrees with the IPCC "Only rapid and drastic reductions in greenhouse gases in this decade can prevent such climate breakdown"
theguardian.com/world/2021/sep…

Listening to the scientists means listening to all the science, not selectively cherry picking the bits that coincide with your other agendas.

"We cannot solve the threats of human-induced climate change and loss of biodiversity in isolation. We either solve both or we solve neither."

Sir Robert Watson former chair of the @IPCC_CH and @IPBES
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The primary problem at the moment is that very few people, let along political leaders, even acknowledge the whole big picture the science paints. There is absolutely no current plan to act on that big picture the science paints.

In all of her speeches at climate and UN conferences, @GretaThunberg has repeatedly referenced how little of the carbon budget we have left to stay within 1.5C of warming i.e. the Paris target. None of the media will report what she says.

https://twitter.com/gretathunberg/status/1219653306353618946?lang=en

Yet Greta was only quoting the IPCC SR15, 2018 report, which says on current carbon emissions we have less than 8 years left of this carbon budget. The latest projection is carbon emissions will rise by 16% by 2030.

https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1438918817690816513

Self-evidently something doesn't add up. Politicians claim to be guided by the science, but are actually pursuing policy, which will allow the levels of warming alone to reach very dangerous levels, and this excludes other major ecological impacts.
nytimes.com/2021/09/17/cli…

Once again, politicians in general, let alone our current political leaders have no plan at all to stem the massive global declines in biodiversity. They make token gestures that make no overall difference.

There is a massive reality gap between what politicians are promising to do, what their action will actually lead to, and what needs to be actually done to avert and climate and ecological catastrophe.

Overall, I characterise this as a complete failure to see the big picture i.e. to perceive what all of this actually means.

What politicians fail to do when they address the public is to consult actual experts as to what their proposals mean in reality.

There are very few experts, let alone other people who have even been looking at the whole big picture of what all of this means for us. Most expert just focus on one part of the overall problem, not the whole big picture.

@GretaThunberg @GeorgeMonbiot @JKSteinberger @ClimateHuman @KateRaworth @ProfSteveKeen

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