Thread by @AssaadRazzouk

The European Environment Agency sent to EU leaders its first-ever report on the climate risks their people face

What are they trying to say in dense bureaucratic-speak? We're in the epoch of total climate f&%kery, to quote @EliotJacobson

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1. Serious people are now putting together charts which show, wait for it, warming of 7C+, while their minimum is 2C

I am not sure the general public (or our politicians) understands that we have zero evidence that we - humanity - can cope with any of this. Zero.

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2. Europe is not in a good place, at all: "The observed rate of increase of annual mean temperature for specific regions in Europe is more than 2.5 times the global mean temperature increase"

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3. Buried on page 26:

"The trend of increasing heat extremes across Europe is larger than the trend simulated by climate models"

In other words: dear fellow scientists, STOP minimizing climate risks and say it as it is, please

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4. And on and on, and on, with brutal facts - though cause and effects are left for the reader to imagine

For example, increased ocean surface acidity means no more coral reefs, in time, and all marine life in danger

It's brought to you, directly, by Big Oil

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5. The situation is completely, utterly out of control already - and the scientists are clearly struggling to how not say it (just check out the chart below and the strange choice of colors and arrows to basically indicate "apocalypse now")

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6. Wait, what? "public and private financial systems"? Think they're talking about us

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And it's further downhill from there, from page 47

"Biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation is a major environmental threat in Europe, and it is accelerating"

"All of Europe’s seas are already strongly affected by climate change and other anthropogenic pressures"

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"Current water scarcity and future risks are most severe in southern Europe"

"Increasing frequency and severity of low flows will lead to hydrological droughts and worsening water scarcity in southern and western-central Europe"

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"Food production is at risk from reduced water availability and quality as well as the deteriorated status of terrestrial and marine ecosystems"

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And we truly have no idea about anything:

""Uncertainties in the medium and long-term are related to pollinator decline, pests and diseases in crops, livestock and aquatic environments, the climate resilience of new crop production systems"

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There is also the small matter of human health (from page 100 onward)

"Population exposure to extreme heat is projected to increase to 172 million/year by 2100 under a low-emissions scenario and to nearly 300 million/year under a high-emissions scenario"

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One of my favorite nuggets (page 102)

"mosquito- and tick-borne diseases that have either expanded their range or recently emerged in the EU include: West Nile virus, chikungunya, dengue, Lyme disease, tick-borne encephalitis and Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever"

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I am going to stop there, because it just gets worse.

Conclusion: act on climate right now, we are not prepared, have no plan, don't know how bad it's going to get and have zero time to waste. EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE is at risk

Source document: ENDeea.europa.eu/publications/e…