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Remember:
1. Global crop failures by 2°C.
2. Most humans dead by 4°C.
3. Earth uninhabitable by 6°C.
4. We risk 2°C by 2035.
5. We risk 4°C by 2065.
6. We risk 6°C by 2095.
One tweet is worth a million newspaper front pages.
1. Global crop failures by 2°C.
2. Most humans dead by 4°C.
3. Earth uninhabitable by 6°C.
4. We risk 2°C by 2035.
5. We risk 4°C by 2065.
6. We risk 6°C by 2095.
One tweet is worth a million newspaper front pages.
1. It will never be too late to try to limit the damage/suffering of the expanding ecological-climate catastrophe by challenging media silence, destructlive growth & short-term profit maximization.
We need economic system change action now to avoid 3-4C by 2050-2100.
Sources:
We need economic system change action now to avoid 3-4C by 2050-2100.
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2. 'Risks of simultaneous crop failure.. increase disproportionately between 1.5 and 2°C'
Over 1.5°C represents 'a threat to global food security'
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0308521X18307674?via%3Dihub
'Agriculture is already at moderate risk, which becomes high risk around 2 degrees' https://vox.com/platform/amp/science-and-health/2017/1/9/14186328/risks-climate-change-graph?__twitter_impression=true
Over 1.5°C represents 'a threat to global food security'
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0308521X18307674?via%3Dihub
'Agriculture is already at moderate risk, which becomes high risk around 2 degrees' https://vox.com/platform/amp/science-and-health/2017/1/9/14186328/risks-climate-change-graph?__twitter_impression=true
3. Meta-analysis: 70% of studies show declines in crop yields by the 2030s (half indicate 10–50% declines):
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877343517302385#bib0010
We are in the danger zone.
2°C will hit as early as 2034-2038 without stunning emissions cuts towards zero in the 2020s. https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-when-might-the-world-exceed-1-5c-and-2c-of-global-warming/amp
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877343517302385#bib0010
We are in the danger zone.
2°C will hit as early as 2034-2038 without stunning emissions cuts towards zero in the 2020s. https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-when-might-the-world-exceed-1-5c-and-2c-of-global-warming/amp
4. Scientists still hope to stay below 2.5C but it would take a 'herculean effort' to avoid 4C, at which point 'mass death' would be likely:
From 2011
: https://www.smh.com.au/business/on-course-to-suffer-global-warming-of-four-degrees-20110708-1h6mh.html
And from 2009: 4C by the 2060s if emissions don't peak & plummet by the 2030s: https://www.dumptheguardian.com/environment/2009/sep/28/met-office-study-global-warming
From 2011
: https://www.smh.com.au/business/on-course-to-suffer-global-warming-of-four-degrees-20110708-1h6mh.html
And from 2009: 4C by the 2060s if emissions don't peak & plummet by the 2030s: https://www.dumptheguardian.com/environment/2009/sep/28/met-office-study-global-warming
5. This recent study confirms 3-4°C looks increasingly likely by 2050-2100 as emissions continue to rise, and that >5C by the end of the century is beyond catastrophic for humanity, and entirely possible.
We must change everything to protect everybody. https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1328646414856040450?s=20
We must change everything to protect everybody. https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1328646414856040450?s=20
6. This is tough information to take in. I feel better when I try to take action to support the Climate Justice Movement which has known for decades that capitalism must be transformed and replaced for decent survival. Individual-collective action is possible. Keep going.
7. Just to add, here's a thread full of key info on parts per million of CO2 (ppm) in the atmosphere and 'CO2-e' which includes all greenhouse gases and forcings. The thread has two more sources on 5-6°C being enough to make the planet uninhabitable. https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1373558190894366723?s=20
8. Because the statements in the tweet are so extraordinary, I have to concentrate on extensive explanatory details which back them up as convincingly as possible in the thread.
It's also important to suggest actions, so here is a thread of ideas: https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1386200536232386568?s=20
It's also important to suggest actions, so here is a thread of ideas: https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1386200536232386568?s=20
9. A video on 6C: https://twitter.com/Jumpsteady/status/1159597997988208641?s=20
10. Some interesting quotations from high-profile scientists here, and see conversations under the tweet for further debate/discussion. https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1386722002728280069?s=20
