Waking up in Perth, Western Australia today I’m feeling the strange disconnect between the desperate calls to climate action from the UN + world’s scientists overnight, and daily life here in my home state. The UN has just said the world mustn’t produce new fossil fuels. This isn’t some abstract thing, they’re saying that if we proceed with new coal, gas & oil production, we are headed for the worst climate scenarios. In Australia, we now know what that means. Catastrophic and regular floods, bushfires, droughts, heatwaves, people dying,

I've been trying to understand the big new UN climate science report, by absorbing what it says about my home state of Western Australia. I've compiled what #IPCC says about WA: current impacts of climate change & what's predicted for: our daily lives, farming, fishing, nature🧵 Less farming. "by 2050, a decline in median wheat yields of up to 30% in south-west Australia" WA is Australia's wheat farming capital. What does this mean for Wheatbelt towns? For this major export industry? For farmers?

1 of 20/ For anyone who watched @craigreucassel’s #FightforPlanetA last night and wants to know more about Australia’s #deforestation rates, its links to #climatechange & #beef production, here's some links to evidence and articles. Warning: it’s a long thread! 2 of 20 #Deforestation has escalated in Australia over recent years, much to the dismay of scientists: nature.com/articles/d4158…