Echoing others who have noted that we don't have a carbon budget:
Cumulative historical emissions have already resulted in millions of lives being impacted via increased frequency of droughts causing acute food insecurity.
"Global emissions have resulted in the rapid warming of the west Pacific, resulting in more rain around Indonesia and concerning but predictable rainfall deficits in arid, food-insecure eastern Kenya, Somalia, and Ethiopia."
Ongoing subsidies to oil and gas, & other policy decisions that unnecessarily increase emissions are policy decisions that condemn thousands, if not many more, to suffering and death.
Politicians who make these decisions must be held accountable.
'Everything is Gone’ New Jersey’s Largest Dairy Devastated by Hurricane Ida
-National Weather Service confirmed 5 tornadoes touched down in New Jersey & eastern Pennsylvania during the fierce thunderstorms triggered by the leftovers of Hurricane Ida
'Kazakhstan expects its 2021 grain crop to contract by 24% to 15.3mn tonnes amid the major drought across much of Eurasia that has hit main grain producing regions'
I am (likely unwisely) wandering into the fray of the current ‘doomism’ debate.
Let me start by saying I offer no clear solutions, just nuance for consideration; admit culpability to being doomist at times; and blame no one except for the fossil fuel companies...
...that have pushed us into this corner where we are anxious, frustrated and exhausted from the challenges of what at times seems like an intractable problem.
My hope is that we can all work and engage respectfully and work towards effective #ClimateAction, recognizing:
-on the one hand that climate scientists have no doubt dealt with tremendous bullying, harassment and misinformation, all the while being ignored and downplayed by government after government (I really can’t imagine the stress and angst this would engender)
'After years in a row of global climate “anomalies" & lower than expected crop production, it seems prudent to reinforce preparations, in 2021 & beyond, to manage for these new climate and production norms and the anomalies that will develop from here on'
Between, #Trump, #COVID19 and other disasters, it has been all to easy to miss the series of climate catastrophes that accumulated around the world in 2020.
It is a shocking list 👇 that most missed in the noise
Please keep #ClimateAction in the forefront - for food, for life
Ukraine- 'lost 570,000 ha of winter crops due to prolonged droughts & unusually intense spring frosts. Further droughts during the spring & summer seasons resulted in additional losses including 200,000 ha of corn & lower crop yields across the country' bit.ly/39lZm9O