Thread by @ClimateBen

Did you know state-corporate media are completely ignoring this Aug 2021 peer-reviewed article showing that unless we slow down today's abrupt climate change we may expect a mass extinction equal to the worst in Earth's history within a matter of decades? nature.com/articles/s4146…

'5.2 °C.. at present rates of increase would likely result in mass extinction comparable to that of the major Phanerozoic events, even without other, non-climatic anthropogenic impacts'
nature.com/articles/s4146…

WMO, 2020: we're heading for 3°C-5°C by 2090s.public.wmo.int/en/media/press…

'Given the rapid pace of change we've set in motion and without arresting or at least slowing down those changes the record shows that we can expect massive extinctions in the natural world equal to the worst in Earth's history.'
skepticalscience.com/news.php?n=5151
5C?dw.com/en/domino-effe…

'252 million years ago, life on Earth faced the “Great Dying”: the Permian-Triassic extinction. The cataclysm was the single worst event life on Earth has ever experienced.'

Over ~60,000 years, 96% of all marine species and ~75% of land species died out.nationalgeographic.com/science/articl…