Ruth Mottram - "I think that human societies have not really grasped that #adaptation to sea level rise is going to be a long process and we are going to be doing it for hundreds of years" #ClimateCrisis https://twitter.com/Oceanwire/status/1380528571832225792
Vladimir Romanovsky - "Around 4 million people live in the Arctic and they have to deal with the real-life consequences of solid ground  #thawing beneath their feet and houses. Some of these impacts could be very severe."
Carolina Vera fears that existing #inequalities will only be exacerbated by climate change.
Dim Coumou - " #Heat and #humidity extremes in the tropics will make it unbearable to be outside. When cooling down by sweating is no longer possible, people can't work outside and therefore can't grow food. The likely result being mass #migration.
Abubakr Salih Babiker's - "A warmer atmosphere can hold more water in it, so heavy rains will leading to #floods. A warmer ocean can lead to stronger tropical cyclones. Extreme weather events can bring further #ecological #disasters along with them, like swarms of locusts"
Ngumbi - "Concerns for vulnerable farmers who live in countries lacking social safety nets, where one season of crop devastation due to insects can mean going #hungry and being unable to pay for their children's education.
Natasha Picone – "With the pandemic, I realized that we are not doing enough for changing our #cities to be more livable, such as the urban heat island effect, air pollution and urban run-off that can lead to flooding."
Reporter Sam Baker "Thawing #permafrost. A scenario where it all melts, releasing copious amounts of #CO2 and #methane (it holds twice as much carbon as the atmosphere holds right now), and there's no going back."
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