Thread by @ClimateBen

🧵Dear Journalists & Editors,

Please report that according to the IPCC, the global growth economy will cause extinctions at 1.5°C to 2°C of warming by 2032 then 1.6°C-2.4°C by 2050, but a new postgrowth paradigm could prevent such horror.

This silence is deadly.

Love from,
Ben

1. '6% of insects, 8% of plants and 4% of vertebrates are projected to lose over half of their climatically determined geographic range for global warming of 1.5°C, compared with 18% of insects, 16% of plants and 8% of vertebrates for global warming of 2°C'ipcc.ch/sr15/chapter/s…

2. We can't rule out 2.5°C-3°C by 2050. People must be informed.

* 1.5C by 2027-2035

* 2C in the very high emissions SSP5-8.5 scenario: range of 2032 to 2053

* 1.6C-2.4C by 2050

carbonbrief.org/analysis-what-…

AR6 report:
ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/

3. Scientists consider 2C by 2032 as highly unlikely.

But, between now and 2040, Dr James Hansen expects the climate’s rate of warming to double in an “acceleration that can be traced to aerosols.”

That acceleration could lead to warming of 2°C by 2040.insideclimatenews.org/news/15092021/…

4. Ask some climate scientists when they expect profoundly catastrophic 2C (without a shift to a successful postgrowth economy). They'll mostly tell you late 2030s to 2060s, I'd suggest.

Degrowth should be all over our media.

cnbc.com/2021/02/19/deg…