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).
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…
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.
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.
Earth's species will suffer 2-2.6°C and rising even in capitalism's most ambitious decarbonization scenario. Scientists anticipate unsurvivable 3-7°C, with geologic periods like the Miocene climatic optimum (MCO) seen as good analogues for our current 21st century climate hell.🧵
1/The race is now on to improve our knowledge of the Earth system in order to understand whether.. moderate levels of pCO2 may.. cause a devastating..increase of up to 7°C in the (near?) future, and if so, take action to prevent it. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/20…x.com/ClimateBen/sta…
2. The temperature regime reconstructed for most of the Miocene, ∼5°C–8°C above modern, is equivalent to projected future warming in about a century under unmitigated carbon emissions scenarios.. an important warm-climate analog.. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… x.com/ClimateBen/sta…
COLLAPSE/EXTINCTION: scientists fear global warming of 3.5°C, which wipes out 33-70% of species (IPCC AR4 2007, IPCC AR6 2022), will likely hit by the 2060s give or take a decade or two 🧵
1. IPCC scenario SSP3-7.0 shows 3.5°C by 2080 or from 2062 (not the worst-case scenario). Even a moderate emissions scenario can lead to 3.5°C this century (new research shows 2060s-80s possible).
2. A new pre-print from highly respected climate scientists implies 3.5°C by 2065-77 at current rates of warming. The authors warn this rate could increase or decrease perhaps suggesting 3.5°C by around 2055-2087 rather like IPCC high emissions scenarios. researchsquare.com/article/rs-607…
BREAKING: scientists say Earth's major systems are undergoing abrupt changes — and soon we'll all feel them 🧵
1. 'prepare for a future of abrupt change.. choices made now will determine whether we face a future of worsening impacts and irreversible change or one of managed resilience to the changes already locked in.' phys.org/news/2025-08-s…
2. Society must now brace for catastrophic impacts.
Destruction of habitats and wildlife has intensified and accelerated to an almost unimaginable degree during the capitalist era. Scientists say the 40-50% of plant species now facing extinction will be obliterated in a handful of decades. It didn't have to be like this. Rethink.
'previous mass extinctions.. took 10,000s, 100,000s, even millions of years to happen. this is happening so fast, now in just two, three decades..' google.com/amp/s/www.cbsn…
2. Current estimates of plant extinctions are, without a doubt, gross underestimates. Extinctions will surpass background rates by 1000s of times over the next 80 years. universityofcalifornia.edu/news/plants-ar…
BREAKING: as tropical forests show increasingly clear signs they are entering a collapse phase scientists warn irreversible mass extinction conditions are on the horizon 🧵
1. rapid warming & collapse
".. warming could continue to accelerate.. even if we reach zero human emissions. We will have fundamentally changed the carbon cycle in a way that can take geological timescales to recover, which has happened in Earth’s past.”scitechdaily.com/mass-extinctio…
2. “There will be a point in the not too distant future when we suddenly see and feel this mass extinction all around us very clearly”
“A key point of extinction crises is that life has always recovered.. However..we most likely won’t be there to see it."
The Greenland ice sheet is now losing around 9 billion litres of ice an hour [Geological Survey of Denmark &Greenland]
With the ice sheet at “a tipping point of irreversible melting”, scientists currently expect an unavoidable sea level rise of 1-2 metres.weforum.org/stories/2025/0…
4 to 10 m sea level rise committed in the coming 2000 years, with the majoroty of that in the coming decades/centuries it would appear. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…