*Trigger warning*
I'm reading stories from the #LismoreFloods. Two-story homes underwater. People screaming, trapped inside their roofs. Seniors drowned inside their homes. I'm crying, and I'm worried for friends and family that live in Lismore. This is a catastrophic flood. It's a flood so high that they're calling it a "Once in 1000 yr flood." But this was predicted. Climate change will increase the frequency and severity of extreme rain and floods. This flood is a clear failure of global leadership to treat the #ClimateCrisis as an emergency.

Here are some of the key messages from the latest IPCC report.

While climate change is an existential threat to all life on earth, this report also offers solutions and hope.

Here we go... 🧵

#IPCCReport #ClimateReport #IPCC "Global warming has caused dangerous and widespread disruption in nature."

#IPCCReport #ClimateReport #IPCC

@AJWVictoriaBC It seems rather arrogant to say there is nothing special about 1.5C when an entire IPCC report was built to analyze the difference between 1.5C and 2C and what that means for all life on earth, with a clearly stated goal to limit warming to 1.5C.
ipcc.ch/sr15/ @AJWVictoriaBC Matthews et al 2021 calculated that there is a 17% chance that the remaining carbon budget to limit warming to 1.5 °C has already been exceeded.

Rather than climate doom-ism, I would much rather focus on that 83% chance and advocate for climate action.
nature.com/articles/s4324…

The latest update from scientists on the #ClimateEmergency: "transformational system changes are required."

This is essential reading for every politician and every decision maker in Canada. #bcpoli #cdnpoli

Thread below... 🔥
theguardian.com/environment/20… From the scientific article signed by 13,800+ scientists:

"there has been an unprecedented surge in climate-related disasters since 2019."

academic.oup.com/bioscience/adv…