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Aug 21 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Four years of journalists ignoring the threat of near-term mass extinction and urgent calls for political & economic systems change from a few outspoken scientists which now underpin the scientific community's consensus view. And still nobody echoes Greta's media analysis. Shame.
"We've simply never been informed in a way which puts the crisis in perspective. And this is the very heart of the problem. No change will be possible until media #FaceTheClimateEmergency" ~GretaT

Still true.
Media silent on:
* 2022 emissions deadline for 1.5/2°C
* system change
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Aug 22
BREAKING: pesticides, air pollution and climate change are damaging bees' brains, deforming their wings, and impairing pollination, with scientists calling for fundamental political and economic systems change as species decline towards extinction across the globe 🧵
1. 'commonly used insecticides like sulfoxaflor and the neonicotinoid imidacloprid can profoundly impair the visually guided behaviour of honeybees'

This is a horrible headline. Support independent media.

uk.news.yahoo.com/modern-pestici…
2. Asymmetry in bumblebee wings as an indicator of stress: 'an analysis of bumblebee wings shows signs of stress linked to increasingly hotter and wetter conditions.'

'the bees experienced stress during development.. that affected their normal growth.' imperial.ac.uk/news/239174/mu…
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Aug 22
BREAKING: heatwave in China described as worst in world climatic history 🧵
1. State-corporate media are silent on extraordinary news:

* scientists say emissions should've peaked and plummeted by July 2017 - June 2022 to avoid profoundly catastrophic 1.5/2°C of global warming

* IPCC calls for political & economic systems change
2. People deserve to know we're being hurtled ever deeper into catastrophe with local & global extinctions looming in the coming years and decades.

Just how bad is the heatwave compared to previous records?

It's clear something extraordinary is happening.
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Aug 21
Did you know scientists now all agree that for a sustainable world we need fundamental changes to 'underlying values, worldviews, ideologies, social structures, political & economic systems, and power relationships'? It's like a colossal hint that today's system is killing us. 🧵
1. The quote is from the FAQs document of the 2022 IPCC AR6 climate report that delivers an updated scientific consensus once or twice a decade and states emissions must fall this year to avoid dire 1.5/2°C of global warming.

Emissions are rising.

🧵⬇️

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2. Billionaire media (including billionaire-backed-&-backing Guardian) are almost totally silent on this. They want to protect the status quo of an Extinction Economy. What else might we expect from ad-dependent, conservative/liberal capitalist media?
🧵⬇️
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Aug 19
Did you know scientists now all agree that for a sustainable world we need fundamental changes to 'underlying values, worldviews, ideologies, social structures, political & economic systems, and power relationships'? It's as if they're hinting that today's system is killing us.🧵
1. The quote is from the FAQs document of the 2022 IPCC AR6 climate report that delivers an updated scientific consensus once or twice a decade and states emissions must fall this year to avoid dire 1.5/2°C of global warming.

Emissions are rising.

🧵⬇️

2. Billionaire media (including billionaire-backed-&-backing Guardian) are almost totally silent on this. They want to protect the status quo of an Extinction Economy. What else might we expect from ad-dependent, conservative/liberal capitalist media?
🧵⬇️
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Aug 19
scientific consensus in 2022: targeting a climate resilient, sustainable world involves fundamental changes to how society functions, including changes to underlying values, worldviews, ideologies, social structures, political & economic systems, and power relationships

media:🤫
1. An effective way of blocking change:

report that scientists now call for system change once then ignore reality in all subsequent articles/editorials and always keep the extinction-climate crisis in a separate section. Example:
dumptheguardian.com/environment/20…
dumptheguardian.com/commentisfree/…
2. IPCC AR6 report 2022: 'Targeting a climate resilient, sustainable world involves fundamental changes to how society functions.. to underlying values, worldviews, ideologies, social structures, political and economic systems, and power relationships.' ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2…
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Aug 16
BREAKING: permafrost landscapes are changing profoundly but global climate models don't account for carbon released by collapsing Arctic hillsides 🧵
1. 'Little research on such a large geographic scale as that in the Taymyr Peninsula exists about thaw slumps. The work of Zwieback, Bernhard and Hajnsek shows that the carbon release from thawing Arctic hillsides must be accounted for..'

uaf.edu/news/thawing-a…
2. From April 2022:

Climate models suggest the impacts of abrupt transitions could be dire.

'The thawing of previously frozen landscapes will continue to change the face of high-latitude ecosystems for years to come'.

Mass media quiet on abrupt changes.theconversation.com/thawing-permaf…
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