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Mar 19 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
BREAKING: simultaneous freakish heat in the Arctic and Antarctic described as 'impossible' and 'unthinkable' by scientists as abrupt climate change accelerates wildly 🧵
1. 'Climate change is “loading the dice”..'

Humanity will struggle to adapt to the Pliocene*-like temperatures and rainfall of a new, hostile climate by the 2030s/2040s.

*3 million years ago washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/0…
2. State-corporate media won't clearly show the consequences of dire Arctic warming:

* sea level rise wrecking the world's coastal cities within a handful of decades or soon after

* wild and likely crop-destroying extreme weather

* rapid permafrost thaw washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/0…
3. The answer? Organise emergency climate justice action to limit the damage and protect species and everyone.

Economic growth means rapid mass extinction at >2°C by 2045 or soon after. We must inform ourselves and each other.

Support independent media.

apnews.com/article/climat…
4. We must rethink energy & agriculture and move rapidly away from economic growth.

We're already in the extreme danger zone at 1.25°C and 417ppm of atmospheric CO2. There is no carbon budget.

Capitalism with vast amounts of renewables? Calamity.

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5. Biodiversity annihilation & ecosystem collapse due to habitat destruction and pollution...it's not just about abrupt climate change.

Economic growth cannot stop primary tropical forest destruction which threatens rapid mass extinction by 2200.

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'tropical forest loss/degradation alone, even without considering other human stressors such as climate change and habitat loss in other ecosystems, will precipitate a mass extinction event over the next couple of centuries.'

1.5°C by 2025-2030.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
6. Any state-corporate media journalists investigating why the IPCC says we're not experiencing abrupt change when warming is at the fastest rate in tens of millions of years, and ocean acidification is fastest in 300 million years..?

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State-corporate media won't focus on the type of answers we need: climate justice, degrowth/postgrowth economics, agroecology.. not to mention diplomacy, de-escalation, detente, disarmament..

Ocean acidification is horrific:

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Mar 17
BREAKING: abrupt climate change is rapidly warping Earth's fresh water cycle relied on by human societies for tap water with scientists warning of potentially disastrous changes faster than previously thought 🧵
1/Fresh water will always come from the tap. Won’t it?

Unfortunately, that’s not guaranteed. Climate change is shifting where the water cycle deposits water..

If this sounds serious, it is. Our ability to harness fresh water makes possible modern society'theconversation.com/climate-change…
2/State-corporate media journalists are very quiet on the extraordinary threats now facing hundreds of millions of people around the world, and on those rapidly approaching.

We face 1.6°C-2°C hell by the 2030s without a shift away from economic growth.
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Mar 16
worth knowing:

1. the destruction of primary tropical forests would lead to the extinction of 75% of species by 2200 even if dangerous climate change didn't exist

2. scientists say all deforestation of the Amazon must end by 2025 for a chance of avoiding catastrophic collapse
1. Economic growth = extinction:

'tropical forest loss/degradation alone, even without considering other human stressors such as climate change & habitat loss in other ecosystems, will precipitate a mass extinction event over the next couple of centuries'.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
2. It's possible the severe tropical forest fragmentation that has already occured means collapse is no longer avoidable given the severity of global warming yet to come. We're in tipping point territory and only economic system change will do.

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Mar 15
Anyone else troubled by the total state-corporate media silence on profoundly catastrophic biodiversity destruction and abrupt ecosystem change at horrific 1.6°C-2°C of global warming by 2032 assuming no economic system change?
1. We can protect people and animals, species and ecosystems if we change the economic system, otherwise we're heading for 1.8°C-3°C by 2048-52. Climate justice activists have been making this clear for years, decades..

Here's a thread I prepared earlier:
2. The idea economic growth could limit warming to 1.6-1.7C by 2050 is utterly implausible in my opinion (the IPCC's best case scenarios). Besides, this short term profit maximization system won't look after people or any other living beings.

What to do:
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Mar 11
We must avoid 1.5°C-1.7°C of global warming hell.

Climate models show 1.5°C-1.7°C will hit by 2029 without immediate economic system change.

System change may delay 1.5°C-1.7°C even if it can't prevent it.

And anyway, it's crucial: this system won't protect us at 1.5°C-1.7°C.
1. We can protect people and animals, species and ecosystems if we change the economic system, otherwise we're heading for 3°C-4°C by 2065-2100. Climate justice activists have been making this clear for years, decades..

Here's a thread to explore:
2. Biodiversity destruction and tree mortality are horrific at 1.5°C-1.7°C.

If we manage to reduce emissions to zero in the coming years, we must also deal with aerosols which threaten to unmask even more warming.

We can still act to protect species.

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Mar 10
The best we can realistically hope for with this economy is unimaginable destruction of Earth's biodiversity plus unmanageable damage to human agriculture due to very high global warming impacts, habitat destruction & pollution, all by 2045. Where are the system change headlines?
1. 'Globally, the percentage of species at high risk of extinction will be 9%-14% at 1.5C, 10%-18% at 2C'.

1.75-2.5°C by 2045.

'Among groups containing the greatest numbers of species at high risk of extinction are invertebrates (especially pollinators)'.carbonbrief.org/scientists-rea…
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Mar 8
The IPCC's methods are failing to capture a shocking trend: carbon emissions from tropical deforestation this century are far higher than previously thought, doubling in just two decades and continuing to accelerate. 🧵
'Deforestation and forest carbon loss are accelerating.

The standard methods used by the IPCC are not spotting some of the things we’ve seen in this paper..They aren’t really capturing the trend that we’ve seen in the last two decades'.

nationalobserver.com/2022/03/04/new…
The latest IPCC reports are grim, just terrifying.

I have two questions.

Could things be even worse than the IPCC reports suggest further strengthening the already pretty watertight case for system change action?

Where are the system change headlines?

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