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1. For all readers who don't warm to the idea of future palm-fringed beaches in the Arctic, I wrote an explainer about COP26, climate change, and why we need to do more.
𧡠The start of a thread.
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#COP26 #climate #ClimateCrisis
1. For all readers who don't warm to the idea of future palm-fringed beaches in the Arctic, I wrote an explainer about COP26, climate change, and why we need to do more.
𧡠The start of a thread.
β‘οΈ RT
#COP26 #climate #ClimateCrisis
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2/12. Current policies set us on track to about 2.7Β°C or 2.9Β°C of warming by the end of this century, a disastrous cause to a world where you don't want your children to live.
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#COP26Glasgow #news #environment
theplanet.substack.com/p/cop26-a-meetβ¦
2/12. Current policies set us on track to about 2.7Β°C or 2.9Β°C of warming by the end of this century, a disastrous cause to a world where you don't want your children to live.
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#COP26Glasgow #news #environment
theplanet.substack.com/p/cop26-a-meetβ¦
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3/12. This graph from Our World in Data shows the global average temperature relative to the average of the period between 1961 and 1990.
These changes are almost all caused by human behavior, especially the burning of fossil fuels and land (ab)use.
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#ClimateAction
3/12. This graph from Our World in Data shows the global average temperature relative to the average of the period between 1961 and 1990.
These changes are almost all caused by human behavior, especially the burning of fossil fuels and land (ab)use.
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#ClimateAction
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4/12. This graph shows that in the past 800,000 years, the CO2 concentrations fluctuated (and so did the temperatures), but they never rose above 300ppm. They are now well over 400ppm.
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#COP26 #carbon #climate #science
4/12. This graph shows that in the past 800,000 years, the CO2 concentrations fluctuated (and so did the temperatures), but they never rose above 300ppm. They are now well over 400ppm.
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#COP26 #carbon #climate #science
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5. If you are interested in #history, #travel, #nature, #wildlife, #climatechange, or #sustainability, read The Planet.
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6/12. IPCC baseline scenarios (without explicit additional efforts to constrain emissions) may raise this number further to 1000ppm by 2100. Thatβs like some 50 million years ago when crocodiles lived in the Arctic.
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#COP26 #Glasgow #news #Arctic
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6/12. IPCC baseline scenarios (without explicit additional efforts to constrain emissions) may raise this number further to 1000ppm by 2100. Thatβs like some 50 million years ago when crocodiles lived in the Arctic.
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#COP26 #Glasgow #news #Arctic
theplanet.substack.com/p/cop26-a-meetβ¦
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7/12. Global emissions need to be falling, but they are still rising. The world has not yet peaked, and we pull our roller coaster cart slowly but surely further upwards on the steep slope.
The higher we go, the more scary the ride will be.
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#COP26Glasgow #climate #news
7/12. Global emissions need to be falling, but they are still rising. The world has not yet peaked, and we pull our roller coaster cart slowly but surely further upwards on the steep slope.
The higher we go, the more scary the ride will be.
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#COP26Glasgow #climate #news
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8. Some day you will tell your grandchildren about today's beauty of the planet. They will chuckle at the small percentage of our GDP needed to stop global warming. But then demand answers why our generation did not take action while we could.
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8. Some day you will tell your grandchildren about today's beauty of the planet. They will chuckle at the small percentage of our GDP needed to stop global warming. But then demand answers why our generation did not take action while we could.
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theplanet.substack.com/p/cop26-a-meetβ¦
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9. This chart shows that we are making progress relative to a world without any climate policies, but we are still far from the progress we need to achieve international targets.
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#COP26 #ClimateEmergency #environment #climateaction
9. This chart shows that we are making progress relative to a world without any climate policies, but we are still far from the progress we need to achieve international targets.
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#COP26 #ClimateEmergency #environment #climateaction
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10/12. And one more graph, which shows that the longer we delay a peak in emissions, the more drastic these reductions would need to be. It also shows that we can't postpone taking action if we want to stay below the disastrous 1.5Β°C.
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#climate #cop26 #CO2 #emissions
10/12. And one more graph, which shows that the longer we delay a peak in emissions, the more drastic these reductions would need to be. It also shows that we can't postpone taking action if we want to stay below the disastrous 1.5Β°C.
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#climate #cop26 #CO2 #emissions
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11/12. Even a hot planet of say 2.5Β°C is still preferable to one of 3Β°C. We have two tasks; to stop the heating and help each other prepare for the impact. That requires solidarity amongst all of us on this small heated planet.
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#climate #future
theplanet.substack.com/p/cop26-a-meetβ¦
11/12. Even a hot planet of say 2.5Β°C is still preferable to one of 3Β°C. We have two tasks; to stop the heating and help each other prepare for the impact. That requires solidarity amongst all of us on this small heated planet.
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#climate #future
theplanet.substack.com/p/cop26-a-meetβ¦
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12/12. I write this newsletter because I believe that together we can do better on this beautiful but fragile planet.
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I hope you will become a supporter too. π
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