Thread by @ClimateHuman

I wanted to clarify where we're at with global heating. You may see 1.1°C sometimes, and 1.2°C other times. 1.1°C is for the 2011-2020 (decadal) mean, and 1.2°C is about where we are right now.

Every 5 years this goes up about another 0.1°C.

Humanity emits more than 1,000 metric tons of CO2 each second, or over 40 billion tons per year, mainly from burning fossil fuels. The richest 1% emit more than twice what the bottom 50% of humans emit.

(part of why we can't keep supporting this ultra-rich ruling class anymore)

The IPCC estimates there are about 200 billion tons left to emit and still have a two-thirds chance to stay below 1.5°C. So that's 5 years from now. Just like the Bowie song. That's why this year is so incredibly important.

This is part of why it's such a disastrous mistake not to excoriate COP26 as the deep failure that it was. (Did you know that the biggest delegation present was the fossil fuel industry? Holy fuck. You can't make it up.)
latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Heating over land is about 2x the global mean heating. So roughly, on average land areas have heated by about 2.4°C or 4.3°F. There's

The global heating estimates are gauged against an estimate of the 1850-1900 global mean. Their uncertainty is roughly ±0.1°C.

Be careful, some anomaly estimates use a different baseline other than 1850-1900, which of course changes the numbers (but not the actual heating!)

Almost all this global heating comes from extracting and burning fossil fuels. About 15% comes from animal agriculture (and some of that is burning fossil fuels). Some comes from deforestation (which is also exacerbated by animal ag, as well as increasing wildfires)

This is why any climate plans / discussions that do not CENTER rapidly ending the fossil fuel industry are, quite simply, bullshit.

Which is incidentally also why you do NOT invite the fossil fuel industry to your United Nations climate negotiations 🙄