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Ben See
@ClimateBen
Literature Teacher providing information on the rapid Extinction-Climate Catastrophe and urging radical degrowth system change action to try to limit the doom.
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Nov 17 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING: scientists hold back tears and shake their heads sadly as they explain utterly compromised COP29 climate conference was meant to be the last chance to organise rapid and deep emissions cuts for any chance of staying well below essentially unsurvivable 2°C 🧵 1. Time has run out to avoid 1.5°C (now sure to hit in the 2020s) and avoid the worst impacts of climate change. 1.75°C will be exceeded soon after with dire 2°C expected by 2030-2050

news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-env…
Nov 16 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
COLLAPSING: scientists confirm there's no doubt humanity will see the real risk of catastrophic multiple breadbasket failures by 2035-2045 🧵 1. “.. we will, certainly, in the next 15 to 20 years, see continued food crises, and the real risk of multiple breadbasket failures … that’s in addition to a lot of the other risks that might impact us through fresh-water pollution, ocean acidification..”dumptheguardian.com/environment/20…
Nov 14 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
BREAKING: horrified scientists discover plankton can't adapt to accelerating rate of global warming🧵 1. 'alarming: plankton are unable to adapt to the unprecedented speed of current temperature increases, jeopardizing vast marine ecosystems'

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

techexplorist.com/some-sea-life-…
Nov 9 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING: scientists confirm plastic production is unsustainable and must end as their fears that 30-70% of Earth's species will go extinct this century intensify 🧵 1. “What is clear is we cannot manage the amount of plastic we are producing..Only 10% of it gets recycled, something needs to be done"

Plastic pollution affecting climate, biodiversity, ecosystems, ocean acidification, species' health. #ExtinctionEconomy
dumptheguardian.com/environment/20…
Nov 4 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING: with some form of collapse now underway, scientists say there has been a terrifying lack of progress on stopping the annihilation of species and ecosystems crucial for human survival.. meanwhile, in totally unrelated news, corporate profits are hitting record highs 🧵 "..government and big corporations.. the blame lies on them."

Next to nothing done to curb extinction since 2022

(See real quote
google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.…)
Gross domestic product (GDP) and corporate profits both smashed expectations in..4th quarter of 2023
google.com/amp/s/thehill.…
Nov 3 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING: climate scientists warn imminent collapse of the AMOC (the major ocean current system) will in turn trigger collapse in the Amazon Rainforest 🧵 1. phenomenon could cause irreversible collapse of forest cover

'climate change triggered by the weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Cell, combined with changes in land use linked to deforestation, would cause irreversible damage to the biome'olhardigital.com.br/2024/11/01/cie…
Nov 2 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING: scientists warn catastrophically rapid extreme global warming at hellish 2°C for the first time by 2029-2031 is plausible. 🧵 1. The IPCC still claims we're at 1.1°C. The epic downplaying is criminal.

Decadal warming of 0.43°C and rising it seems.

Abrupt climate change is just one compounding factor in extinction horror.

Change this Doom Economy now while it's still too late. Image
Nov 1 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING: shocking new climate consensus revealed as more than 9 out of 10 scientists agree all viable paths to stay below hellish 2°C of warming under capitalism are now gone 🧵 1/We need global mobilization on a scale and pace never seen before or the 1.5C goal will soon be dead and well below 2C will take its place in the intensive care unit'

Scientists know:

these are just words

a 1/3 of emissions won't be cut within years
unep.org/news-and-stori…
Oct 31 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
BREAKING: major new health report shows food insecurity and hunger are rising "relentlessly" during capitalism as ecological breakdown intensifies 🧵 1. The Lancet Climate & Health report.

Catastrophic hunger increasing.

Oct 31 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING: horror and disgust as negotiators at COP16 remove call to transition away from fossil fuels from the UN nature summit's draft agreement 🧵 1. 'A coalition of nearly 150 campaign groups published a joint letter to negotiators calling on them to halt new oil and gas activity in nature-rich areas like the Amazon rainforest and the Verde Island Passage in the Philippines.'

climatechangenews.com/2024/10/29/fos…
Oct 30 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
COLLAPSING: there are no longer any viable paths to limit warming to below 2°C this century given the capitalist race for profit and economic growth past and present with Earth's species condemned to suffer 1.9-2.1°C by 2030-2045 🧵 1. Warming acceleration will only cease by the 2030s under a low emissions scenario. Even capitalist best-case emissions reductions (which haven't occured and won't) would likely lead to 2°C by 2044-55 (and very likely by 2064) according to recent research.
Oct 29 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING: new scientific report confirms Earth is rapidly becoming 'increasingly uninhabitable' 🧵 1. 'Further reduction of anthropogenic aerosol emissions will.. amplify climate warming, and can also strengthen precipitation change and extreme events in many regions. It is essential that climate action takes the effects of aerosol changes into account'
10insightsclimate.science/year-2024/vuln…
Oct 19 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING: a year and a half at 1.6°C of global warming in 2023/24 with emissions higher than ever confirms unstoppable collapse has begun 🧵 1. Anticipate the collapse of tropical corals and also the collapse of the Amazon rainforest. The cryosphere is already collapsing. The AMOC could collapse any day now.

Oct 18 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING: economic doom-growth really does mean unsurvivable biodiversity destruction and global warming 🧵

1. New report: emissions set to peak after 2024 - too late to avoid rapid extinction at 2.25-4°C and rising by 2062-2078

iea.org/news/geopoliti…

ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/ IPCC AR6 SPM : Peak and 2100 global warming across scenario categories. 2. Emissions had to peak before 2025 to avoid 1.5-3°C of global warming. This is no longer considered possible.

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Oct 15 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING: scientists say there's every reason to think the sudden collapse of carbon sinks which was never factored into climate models will further accelerate rapid global heating with cataclysmic consequences for Earth's species 🧵 1. "Liberal fake-left capitalist media support for economic doom-growth despite it causing rapid extinction has set us on an unexorable trajectory towards doom."

dumptheguardian.com/environment/20…
Oct 7 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING:  climate scientists broken and hopeless after study reveals the reflective power of Arctic sea ice has been reduced by a terrifying 21%–27% in the last few decades 🧵 1.  The planet is not as it was:

'.. 21%–27% reduction in the reflective power of Arctic sea ice since 1980. Antarctic sea ice exhibited a regime change in 2016..

Global sea ice has.. lost 13%–15% of its planetary cooling effect since the early/mid 1980s'
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/20…
Oct 6 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
OLD NEWS: cataclysmic global warming of 2°C and rising which is associated with societal collapse is now likely by 2030-2055 even with capitalist emissions reductions 🧵 1. Minor or zero emissions reductions mean 2°C by the 2030s/40s. Major reductions promised by capitalism likely mean 2°C by 2055 (2044 possible; 2064/65 very likely).


Even near-best-case giant reductions (implausible given growth) would likely mean ~2°C.dohanews.co/ai-study-warns…
Oct 6 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
BREAKING: extraordinary admission from IPCC Chairman confirms catastrophic near-term global warming of 1.8-1.9°C and rising is unavoidable because there are no emissions reductions in sight 🧵 1. The planet you think you're living on no longer exists. Abrupt climate change is just one compounding factor in extinction catastrophe.

2 to 6 million species set to be wiped out in decades.

Change this Extinction Economy now while it's still too late.
Oct 5 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING: wealthiest countries break promise to pay for stopping and reversing biodiversity destruction by 2030 as rapid extinction begins to overwhelm the majority of Earth's species during capitalism 🧵 1. This Extinction Economy of growth and short-term profit maximisation won't protect species or anyone.

'out of the 196 parties that agreed to the global biodiversity framework in 2022, only 10% of countries have submitted their updated national plans'
greenpeace.org/international/…
Oct 4 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING:  scientists remind world 12-29% of Earth's species will very likely go extinct within a couple of decades leaving humanity on the brink and suffering vast global misery during capitalism 🧵 1. 'study confirms that the rate of extinction has accelerated.

Since 1500.. extinctions multiplied by 28. Other studies claim.. by 100'

'we are facing the sixth mass extinction — the first caused by a single species and over a very short period of time' google.com/amp/s/english.…
Sep 29 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
BREAKING:  wealthy elites confirm they know full well the natural world is buckling under the pressure of their ecocidal actions with their ongoing 2020s annihilation of Earth's ecosystems and wildlife now the gravest of near-term existential threats to life on the planet   🧵 1. The Doom Economy won't stop wrecking ecosystems

"truth is, we are living at odds with the natural world.. it is buckling under the pressure of our actions.. If we are to keep this planet liveable for our children and grandchildren, we must act urgently"gbnews.com/royal/prince-w…