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Has capitalism left it too late to avoid hellish 1.75/2.25°C of global warming and rising?

Yes.

Can we adapt?

No.

Has the scientific community issued major consensus reports indicating political-economic systems changes are mandatory?

Yes.

Will journalists reveal this?

No.
1. The UN/IPCC and mass media journalists continue to mislead the public with the notion that the current economic system - or any system - can avoid 1.5/2°C (when adaptation starts to become/becomes impossible).

Just one part of extinction catastrophe. 🧵
2. The two major scientific bodies, the IPCC and the IPBES, have issued major reports indicating current political-economic systems must be changed as they are causing biodiversity destruction, extinction, ecosystem collapse, and extreme climate change.
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3. Even the consensus science (which is challenged by Dr James Hansen and many other great scientists because it doesn't reflect the reality of catastrophic and accelerating climate change properly) reveals it may be too late to avoid 1.75°C and 2°C. nature.com/articles/s4324…
Distribution of the remaining carbon budget for 1.75 and 2.0°C temperature targets, with cumulative CO2 emissions from the beginning of the year 2020 onwards. (from 'An integrated approach to quantifying uncertainties in the remaining carbon budget')
4. The IPCC implies adaptation is still possible at 1.5- 1.9°C, however major ecosystems and biomes are being bulldozed and heated to collapse at 1/1.5°C.

Change this Extinction Economy now while it's still too late to protect species and everyone.

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7. 'Nature-based solutions – such as coral reefs, mangroves and marshes, all of which can help adaptation efforts – will likely reach hard limits of their own as the planet warms beyond 1.5C, the report says.' carbonbrief.org/in-depth-qa-th…
8. Adaptation at 1.75/2.25°C?

Given the catastrophic consequences of 1.25/1.75°C, non-climate factors, and the fact we must anticipate far worse at today's 427 ppm of atmospheric CO2 and rising fast, survival for many/the majority species is in doubt.

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1. Increased PFAS use “disturbing”

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1. Temperature datasets have underestimated global warming according to this reliable new study. In 2023 Earth had warmed by 1.548°C since the late 19th century.

Change this Extinction Economy now to protect species and everyone while it's still too late.
rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/qj…
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In the 2010s, scientists agreed 2°C would mean harm/dislocations for civilization. In 2022, the IPCC's AR6 report showed extreme impacts at 2°C will be even worse than previously expected.

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James Hansen warns of 2°C.

'This high rate of warming is caused by a combination of greenhouse gas emissions being close to an all-time high and a reduction in the cooling impacts of aerosols'carbonbrief.org/guest-post-tra…
2. Conservative projections show 2°C as early as 2037. Species like humans reach limits of adaptation at this point. (Tropical ecosystems wrecked at 1.5°C.)

Change this Extinction Economy now to protect species and everyone now while it's still too late.
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plants and soils absorbed almost no CO2 last year'

'we may see a rapid acceleration of CO2 and global warming.. unforeseen in future climate models projections'

'ugly consequences'



arxiv.org/abs/2407.12447
2. Organise political and economic system change now to protect species and everyone.

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Causes of oxygen loss:

global warming due to greenhouse gas emissions

input of nutrients as a result of land use

phys.org/news/2024-07-l…
2. 'Planetary boundaries represent thresholds in major Earth system processes that are sensitive to human activity and control global-scale habitability and stability

critical oxygen thresholds are being approached at rates comparable to other.. processes'
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