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2 Jan, 5 tweets, 2 min read
The planet we think we're living on no longer exists.
State-corporate media are radically downplaying the most important story in human history.

The words 'abrupt climate change' are nowhere to be found. Even 'climate change' is relegated to paragraph 23 in many articles or missing entirely.

1.8-2C by 2035?
We need extraordinary, fair, emergency, system change action to limit the doom. 🕊️💚

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Academics and many others have been showing for decades how the economic growth paradigm leading us into catastrophe and perhaps cataclysm can be changed.

This system can't protect species.

Catastrophic change is accelerating.

Limit the damage.

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We must face up to this staggering climate-extinction crisis. It's painful to do so, but less painful than watching the media ignore and downplay the predicament with fake-solutioning, low-expectation-mongering, silverlining-ism &greenwashing/changewashing.

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3 Jan
TOMORROW'S HEADLINES: world famous climate scientist Dr James Hansen warns of 2°C as soon as 2040 but urges "don't despair" 🧵
🧵1. Emergency degrowth action could delay/avoid 1.5°C-2°C

(the destructive economic growth of capitalism will take us over dire 2°C within decades according to most climate scientists.)

nature.com/articles/s4146…
2. The risk of an aerosol termination shock is not being reported. Just one or two journalists have covered this.

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3 Jan
Emissions are projected to rise to record levels over the next 3 or 4 years. The danger is dire 1.6°C-2°C at >450 ppm of CO2 by the 2030s as aerosols are cut - that's world ending for a horrific number of people and species. We must focus on the 2020s, 2030s, & 2040s!

If we..🧵
🧵1.

are going to discuss 2100 in terms of pledges and policies, surely we need to acknowledge that 3-4°C is still possible even if we don't question the assumptions behind them!?

See study here:
news.yahoo.com/study-casts-do…
🧵2.

Dr James Hansen warns of 2°C by 2040.
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1 Jan
Record-breaking heat on January 1st 2022, but no mention of abrupt climate change.

In fact, no mention of the climate-extinction catastrophe anywhere on the Guardian homepage.

In 2022!

Just happy people.

Enjoying a swim.

Do you see what's going on yet?theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/j…
1. 'St James’s Park in central London provisionally beat the record with a temperature of 16.2C, the Met Office said.'

Surely the Met Office mentioned abrupt climate change?!?

dumptheguardian.com/uk-news/2022/j…
2. No mention of abrupt climate change in any Met Office tweets in the last few days.

This four and a half minute video talks about remarkable and exceptionally mild weather, but no context or explanation is given. No mention of abrupt climate change.

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29 Dec 21
BREAKING: Earth's land and water ecosystems are 'on the brink of collapse' says new UN report 🧵
1. 'only by working together can we bring land, soil, and water ecosystems back from the brink'

But this extinction economy does not allow us to work together.

Profound system change required.

We should be talking about agroecology.

news.un.org/en/story/2021/…
2a. 'The scale and intensity of current land and water use for agriculture are not sustainable at many local levels. In some cases, this extends to the global level when just-in-time supply can break down, particularly if unforeseen drought drastically reduces crop production.'👇
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28 Dec 21
NEW: climate scientists say 2021 extremes were beyond what they thought possible, like something from a dystopian sci-fi novel

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1. 'Climate change is now a factor in every single weather event that occurs.'

'like something from a dystopian sci-fi novel'

cnbc.com/video/2021/07/…
2. December 2021 temperatures in Alaska are shattering records.

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16 Dec 21
BREAKING : international team of scientists warns of global collapse of Earth's ecosystems 🧵
1. The multiple ecosystems collapsing across Australia and into Antarctica threatening our survival 'are a harbinger for environments globally.'

There still exist
positive actions to try to protect/restore ecosystems.

'We..cannot afford any further delay'theconversation.com/existential-th…
2. A new study 'sounding the alarm on global ecosystem collapse if action is not taken urgently'.

U.S.-based researcher: "We're not yet at the level.. the paper shows in Australia, but we're moving in that direction." We can "still get our act together."

pdx.edu/news/study-war…
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