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1. The climate in 2100: The future is nearer than you think, and that is terrible news.
We are not good at imagining the future, which makes it harder to promote climate action.
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#ClimateCrisis #climatechange #future #environment #climate #IPCC
1. The climate in 2100: The future is nearer than you think, and that is terrible news.
We are not good at imagining the future, which makes it harder to promote climate action.
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#ClimateCrisis #climatechange #future #environment #climate #IPCC
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2. Many of us fear for a future where climate change and the loss of nature make this planet a tough place to survive.
Long-term climate change projections, like from the IPCC, usually predict the situation in the year 2100. theplanet.substack.com/p/the-climate-β¦
2. Many of us fear for a future where climate change and the loss of nature make this planet a tough place to survive.
Long-term climate change projections, like from the IPCC, usually predict the situation in the year 2100. theplanet.substack.com/p/the-climate-β¦
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3. In the IPCC's 'middle of the road' scenario, temperatures will rise to 2.7C by the end of the century.
It assumes that CO2 emissions hover around current levels before starting to fall mid-century.
Is that realistic?
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3. In the IPCC's 'middle of the road' scenario, temperatures will rise to 2.7C by the end of the century.
It assumes that CO2 emissions hover around current levels before starting to fall mid-century.
Is that realistic?
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5. If the idea of 2,7C higher temperatures frightens you, and it should, then don't think about the worst of the five IPCC scenarios where the average global temperature will be a scorching 4.4C higher by 2100.
#ClimateEmergency #deforestation #IPCC
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5. If the idea of 2,7C higher temperatures frightens you, and it should, then don't think about the worst of the five IPCC scenarios where the average global temperature will be a scorching 4.4C higher by 2100.
#ClimateEmergency #deforestation #IPCC
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6. When hearing bad news, denial is the first reaction.
That was not only a natural reaction to bad news about the climate; it was actively encouraged by the leaders in the fossil fuel industry.
Do you think that is a crime?
#climate #nature
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6. When hearing bad news, denial is the first reaction.
That was not only a natural reaction to bad news about the climate; it was actively encouraged by the leaders in the fossil fuel industry.
Do you think that is a crime?
#climate #nature
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7. Blaming others for the climate crisis is quite popular.
Try it out with friends or family: start talking about climate change, and I guarantee you that fingers will be pointed at others within minutes.
#environment #ClimateAction
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7. Blaming others for the climate crisis is quite popular.
Try it out with friends or family: start talking about climate change, and I guarantee you that fingers will be pointed at others within minutes.
#environment #ClimateAction
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8. Another aspect that makes us less alarmed than we should be is that the future is less far away than you think.
Looking more than15 years in the future is difficult for us since we use a human timescale.
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8. Another aspect that makes us less alarmed than we should be is that the future is less far away than you think.
Looking more than15 years in the future is difficult for us since we use a human timescale.
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9. Do you remember when the second Back to the Future movie came out in 1985.
I bet that for you the idea of living in 2015 was unimaginably far in the future.
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#future #tech #innovation
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9. Do you remember when the second Back to the Future movie came out in 1985.
I bet that for you the idea of living in 2015 was unimaginably far in the future.
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#future #tech #innovation
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10. The year 2100 is only 78 years and 95 days away.
So a child that is born today may live that long and that child will have children and grandchildren that will have to live on the remnants of the paradise-like planet that we had the pleasure of knowing.
#deforestation
10. The year 2100 is only 78 years and 95 days away.
So a child that is born today may live that long and that child will have children and grandchildren that will have to live on the remnants of the paradise-like planet that we had the pleasure of knowing.
#deforestation
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11. Flip back in time those 78 years and 95 days, and we are on 25 June 1943; does that sound unimaginably far away?
It doesnβt when I think of my parents.
Nor should 2100 feel far when we think of our children.
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#history #WWII #children
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11. Flip back in time those 78 years and 95 days, and we are on 25 June 1943; does that sound unimaginably far away?
It doesnβt when I think of my parents.
Nor should 2100 feel far when we think of our children.
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#history #WWII #children
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12. Someday your children may write in a blog in the year 2100, stating that 2021 doesn't feel far away from the past: their parents were still alive, the summers were lovely, you could still enjoy butterflies and free and fair elections.
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#history
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12. Someday your children may write in a blog in the year 2100, stating that 2021 doesn't feel far away from the past: their parents were still alive, the summers were lovely, you could still enjoy butterflies and free and fair elections.
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#history
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13. There is another risk. Not only does 2100 look far away into the future, but the projections of 2100 also give the unintended impression of an end date. As if the changing of our climate stops at that date.
I wish it would work out like that.
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13. There is another risk. Not only does 2100 look far away into the future, but the projections of 2100 also give the unintended impression of an end date. As if the changing of our climate stops at that date.
I wish it would work out like that.
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14. Unfortunately, in all likelihood, it gets much worse in at least some aspects.
The first that comes to mind is sea-level rise, which will likely be worse in the next century than in our times.
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#sealevel #sealevelrise #climate #SIDS
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14. Unfortunately, in all likelihood, it gets much worse in at least some aspects.
The first that comes to mind is sea-level rise, which will likely be worse in the next century than in our times.
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#sealevel #sealevelrise #climate #SIDS
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15. I hope you will agree that we don't have a day to lose to reduce fossil fuel use and deforestation and prepare for the challenges of a different kind of planet that is our only home in a vast, cold, and lonely universe.
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#nature #wildlife
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15. I hope you will agree that we don't have a day to lose to reduce fossil fuel use and deforestation and prepare for the challenges of a different kind of planet that is our only home in a vast, cold, and lonely universe.
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#nature #wildlife
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