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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Apr 6 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING: staggered climate scientists warn anything is now possible (and they mean anything) after the biggest jump in temperature ever recorded anywhere on Earth occurs in the Antarctic
1. "if we had a 40C rise in the UK now.. that would be deadly for the population.”
Glaciologist Prof Martin Siegert, of the University of Exeter: “No one in our community thought that anything like this could ever happen."
BREAKING: IPCC scientist reveals it's actually been years since their models first indicated the catastrophic global warming acceleration now happening was to be expected 🧵
1. The IPCC is still silent on it's own findings
a) models show the current catastrophic global warming acceleration of the 2020s was to be expected
BREAKING: climate scientists confirm catastrophic accelerated warming set to hit this decade 🧵
1. 'we may expect an accelerated surface temperature warming in this decade'
'a positive EEI confirms the lag of the climate system in responding to forcing and implies that additional global warming will take place even without further forcing changes" nature.com/articles/s4324…
Apr 3 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
BREAKING: scientific community begins to confront widespread denial with team of distinguished scientists publishing a paper explicitly stating exploitative wealth-oriented capitalism must be replaced immediately as the extinction of 32- 70% of Earth's species in decades looms🧵
1/'a critical paradigm shift must occur that replaces exploitative, wealth-oriented capitalism with an economic model that prioritizes sustainability, resilience, and justice'
BREAKING: as Earth's major forests begin to collapse a new report shows 95% of companies behind catastrophic rapid industrial-scale deforestation have failed to take meaningful action since pledging to stop the destruction 10 years ago with a 2025 tipping point deadline looming🧵
1. Rainforests in SE Asia have hit tipping points. 20- 26% of the Amazon Rainforest is in a state of collapse
"The tipping point is not a future scenario but rather a stage already present"
“..a system can collapse in the sense of massive extinction in relatively short time.. even a slow parameter change can suddenly lead to a system collapse with catastrophic consequences.”
Prepare to avoid future disasters or mitigate their effects? 🧵
Mass media editors are hiding a terrible secret: capitalism has left us in rapid mass extinction territory due to its habitat destruction, wildlife extermination, and toxic chemical, light & noise pollution plus 1.5- 2°C of global warming and rising fast to unsurvivable 2.5- 7°C.
Scientists and activists all know emergency system change action should have begun by the early 2020s at the absolute latest and probably before to curb biodiversity calamity. The public? Clueless due to mass media editors' refusal to reveal reality.
Scientists say soon enough we'll suddenly see and feel the 6th mass extinction all around us very clearly. 🧵
1. 'the damage won’t always be in the background. Nizar Ibrahim is a paleontologist.. “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,” Ibrahim says.' discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/e…
Mar 9 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING: scientists confirm world capitalism has now fatally warped Earth's seasons unleashing ecological chaos and rapid extinction 🧵
1. 'climate change won’t simply usher in seasons where everything happens either a month earlier or later. Some species will delay hibernation.. but others will stick to their original schedule, taking their cues from day length.. The result will be chaos'theconversation.com/climate-change…
Mar 1 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
BREAKING: great apes including bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans have been listed as Critically Endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature meaning they are on the very brink of extinction 🧵
1/How many journalists and scientists will clearly and consistently explain political and economic system change is the only way to meaningfully protect species and everyone?
Great apes, human's closest living relatives, knocking on the door of extinction.phys.org/news/2024-02-m…
Feb 27 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
OLD NEWS: the greatest climate scientist in history warns we're all set to hit global warming levels that will leave species like humans unable to adapt within a decade or so 🧵
1. "We will pass through the 2C..world in the 2030s unless we take purposeful actions to affect the planet’s energy balance.” ~James Hansen
“Jim is probably the greatest climate scientist in history, so I am hesitant to disagree with him" ~Andrew Dessler dumptheguardian.com/environment/20…
Feb 27 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
BREAKING: scientists fear the majority of Earth's species face near-term extinction as US-led industrial capitalism accelerates its extermination of wildlife and people with mass media journalists silent on scientific consensus documents urging political-economic system change🧵
1/Under Biden, we’ve seen a record-breaking explosion in approvals for more oil & gas drilling permits -even more than Trump- coinciding with a new, mammoth ad campaign promoting the expanded use of fossil fuels launched by the American Petroleum Institute'euronews.com/2024/02/27/a-t…
Feb 26 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
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).
Species are currently being annihilated at a faster rate than in any of Earth’s past extinctions and we're entering likely the most dire mass extinction yet. Mass media won't explain that scientists agree economic growth and the race for profit are taking us to our doom. 🧵
1. “We are currently losing species at a faster rate than in any of Earth’s past extinction events. It is probable that we are in the first phase of another, more severe mass extinction”
Take a close look, and you'll see catastrophic biodiversity destruction is the equal of accelerating climate change horror, with the same basic deadline for economic system change action: 1972 (±5 decades). Too many scientists are in some kind of extinction denial on this. 🧵
1. The two major scientific institutions on biodiversity/eosystems and climate both state we must shift away from the current paradigm of growth and the race for profit of capitalism via political and economic systems changes. Mass media block this message.dumptheguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Jan 31 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Two years ago scientists published a major report warning humans would not be able to adapt to extreme climate change impacts by mid-century. Zero headlines. Now global warming is accelerating. Zero headlines. Adaptation? Feared to become impossible by 2035- 2045. Zero headlines.
1. "adaptation measures can substantially reduce the adverse impacts of 1-2C.., but beyond this losses will increase, including species extinctions and changes, such as major biome shifts which cannot be reversed on human timescales”
BREAKING: scientists confirm forests are surpassing climate thresholds becoming sources of carbon creating more warming and accelerating planetary catastrophe 🧵
1. 'Some forests are already approaching or surpassing climate thresholds which shift them to become sources of carbon..'
"Less ecosystem carbon storage means more carbon in the atmosphere and therefore more warming and accelerating climate change." phys.org/news/2024-01-c…
Jan 5 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
BREAKING: ecologists say Canada is wiping out the boreal forest ecosystem 🧵
Wiping out the ecosystem:
Old forest in the parts of Quebec & Ontario included in a recent study 'exists "as a vast scatter of patches" across the region in "a highly anthropically disturbed forest."' Older forest areas are crucial habitats for caribou.
BREAKING: scientists confirm 40- 60% of tree species face intense risk of near-term extinction 🧵
1. The IUCN Red List suggests 33% of tree species risk extinction: 'one third of tree species.. threatened with extinction'
But this is an uderestimation.
See thread for up to 50% or 58% of tree species facing extinction threats: bgci.org/news-events/40…
BREAKING: scientists confirm fears the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is now collapsing 🧵
1. Scientists now indicate the West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapsed in the past at 0.5- 1.5°C of warming causing massive sea level rise. We're now hitting 1.5°C and rising.
Change this Extinction Economy now while it's still too late.
reminder: scientists have discovered weaknesses in the ice shelf holding back Antarctica’s 'doomsday' glacier suggesting it could shatter within the next 12 to 36 months 🧵
1. Change this Extinction Economy now while it's still too late.
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