Thread by @ClimateBen

At 420 ppm of CO2 with emissions rising to extreme record levels and no solid plans to deal with aerosols or destructive industrial agriculture the question now is can the public see through state-corporate media distortions to force fair emergency action which limits the doom?🧵

1. We're still heading for 2C-3C by the 2050s.

We're somewhere around the SSP2-4.5, SSP3-7.0, and SSP5-8.5 scenarios (IPCC climate report AR6 from 2021).

See thread.

https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1463423171781083140?s=20

2. “It is well understood that [aerosols’] presence is masking a substantial amount of greenhouse gas warming,”

This puts our increasingly interdependent global civilization in a tough bind.'

rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

3. Food systems are responsible for a third of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions

Even if the world stopped burning fossil fuels immediately, global food system emissions could still push global temperatures over the 1.5C warming threshold

Tweaking? 🤔theconversation.com/want-to-act-on…

4. Progress?! We must support independent media to smash myths spread by corporate journalists/editors for the system changes necessary for any hope of a chance of decent survival.

We're still on track for 2C by the 2040s followed by 3C-5C sooner or later.vox.com/the-weeds/2021…