Climate scientists don't think this economic system will keep us below horrific 1.5-1.7°C of global warming.
We're heading for 2°C by 2045.
Even if we get on a lower emissions path we exceed 1.8°C by 2050/2090, and we're nowhere near it.
Where are the system change headlines?
We're heading for 2°C by 2045.
Even if we get on a lower emissions path we exceed 1.8°C by 2050/2090, and we're nowhere near it.
Where are the system change headlines?
1.6/1.7C by 2050 even on profoundly unlikely lower emissions scenarios.
Ever hear scientists saying we'll be at 1.4C in 2090 with this economy? No chance.
1.5-1.7C is too much for the oceans, too much for our fragmented, suffering forests.
This economy cannot help or protect.
Ever hear scientists saying we'll be at 1.4C in 2090 with this economy? No chance.
1.5-1.7C is too much for the oceans, too much for our fragmented, suffering forests.
This economy cannot help or protect.
1.4°C-1.5°C is too much for tropical corals and many species to cope with.
1.6°C-1.7°C in a world of logging and deforestation is unthinkable.
1.6°C-1.7°C in a world of logging and deforestation is unthinkable.
https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1499513026763964419?s=20&t=YQcZDyFAD5VLA2al1ucEWg
Snapshot survey of IPCC scientists
'4% said the world might indeed meet its most aggressive goal of limiting warming to 1.5 °C — a target that many scientists and academics wrote off from the moment the Paris agreement was signed in 2015.' nature.com/articles/d4158…
'4% said the world might indeed meet its most aggressive goal of limiting warming to 1.5 °C — a target that many scientists and academics wrote off from the moment the Paris agreement was signed in 2015.' nature.com/articles/d4158…
'We struggle to name any climate scientist who at that time thought the Paris Agreement was feasible..
“a complete shock, no one thought limiting to 1.5°C was possible”
.. a senior academic involved in the IPCC concluded we were heading beyond 3°C..'
“a complete shock, no one thought limiting to 1.5°C was possible”
.. a senior academic involved in the IPCC concluded we were heading beyond 3°C..'
https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1498784044137517063?s=20&t=QvBAPTriw8Zury2030-MXw
We need degrowth for any hope of a chance of a dream of 1.5C-1.7C it would seem. State-corporate media journalists aren't going to seriously discuss and vigorously support system change though, are they? Are they?
https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1498793605611364357?s=20&t=QvBAPTriw8Zury2030-MXw
Q 'why do some reports still claim that 2 °C is achievable?'
A 'they almost always assume that the world will resort to geoengineering and somehow suck vast quantities of CO2 out of the atmosphere.. bsut many scientists are extremely sceptical'
From 2015:newscientist.com/article/dn2843…
A 'they almost always assume that the world will resort to geoengineering and somehow suck vast quantities of CO2 out of the atmosphere.. bsut many scientists are extremely sceptical'
From 2015:newscientist.com/article/dn2843…
1.4°C/1.5°C is too much.
Only system change might limit the damage and/or protect people & species.
Brief thread:
Only system change might limit the damage and/or protect people & species.
Brief thread:
https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1499494948541972483?s=20&t=zGYSJUAOeEKpf5sRAUUqHw
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