“In my view it is impossible to survive that sort of change.”
The late Dr. Will Steffen on the 4C temperature rise predicted across the coming decades.
The extreme heat & disruption we’re experiencing as we approach 1.5C suggests he was absolutely right.
I’m seeing all these people saying they can’t stand the heatwave.
Very few seem to understand this is just the beginning and it’s going to get much much hotter in the coming years.
Sorry mendacious climate deniers. The #HockeyStick is longer and sharper now, as demonstrated by an independent group of ~80 paleoclimate scientists around the world: https://t.co/XQHw5QUpvD
@terrychristian For 15 centuries, global temperatures barely changed.
There is more than 2x as much variation in the last 25 years than in the previous 2000.
This article says climate change is “believed to have played a role” in the UK's extreme heat this week.
As a climate scientist, let me fact-check that.
First, climate change is not a religion. No belief is required. It is about evidence.
And the evidence has been crystal clear for more than two decades: climate change is making heat waves hotter, longer, more frequent and more dangerous.
In fact, science has advanced far beyond saying climate change merely “played a role.” Today, we can quantify how much more likely and how much hotter climate change made a specific event.
Here's the bottom line:
Climate is changing. Humans are responsible. And we are experiencing the impacts now. That’s the bad news.
The good news is that solutions already exist, and the majority of people care - 89%, around the world!
But meaningful action depends on helping people understand not just what is happening: we need to know how it affects our lives (this heat wave being example A today) and what we can do about it.
That’s the opportunity this reporting missed.
https://t.co/vYfPDKcWWf
Human civilization has only been around for thousands of years—and over that time, global average temperature has been as stable as our own body temperature, varying by just a few tenths of a degree across the centuries. Until now.
Today’s rate of warming—more than 1.3°C (2.3°F) in just the last hundred years—is entirely unprecedented in human history.
Why does this matter? Because nearly every aspect of our civilization, from infrastructure to food systems, is profoundly unsuited to the types of shocks we’re now experiencing.
And while human systems can bend, to a point, eventually they will break.
Read more of my interview with David Gelles here:
https://t.co/1SG97vKCLL
Even without El Niño, Global Sea Surface Temperatures are already hitting daily record highs.
We're now entering a climate hotter than has existed for hundreds of thousands of years!
How's it going on your planet?
Here on Earth we're experiencing the hottest planet in over 120,000 years, much hotter than at any other time human civilization has existed, mainly due to having the most atmospheric CO2 in over 4 million years, with much hotter times ahead.
NEW SCIENTIST MISLEADS ON GLOBAL WARMING- BADLY
New Scientist: 'Scientists disagree whether human-made climate change or natural fluctuations are mostly to blame for worse-than-expected heat in recent years'.
Not true New Scientist – Goggle AI: ‘scientists overwhelmingly agree on the acceleration of global warming There is widespread scientific agreement that global warming has accelerated in recent years'. #globalwarming #climatechange
Since the end of the last ice age 10,000 years ago, the world has lost one-third of its forests. Two billion hectares of forest land, an area twice the size of the United States, has been cleared.
We cannot lose another acre.
The more you know ...
The Earth has gained the equivalent of about 5.7 *billion* Hiroshima bombs worth of planetary heating since January, 2000.
About 89% of that heat went into heating the oceans. The rest to melt ice and snow, heat land and heat the atmosphere.
It's very remarkable how well climate predictions from decades ago have held up.
Retrospectively comparing future model projections to observations provides a robust test of accuracy.
https://t.co/ZbQZJyGQWh
Fuck me, it’s nuts that the world isn’t on high alert with a World War level effort to fix global warming - instead politicians, media and public are in denial, from here to the Antarctic and back again.
An unprecedented mass murder-suicide evolving in front of our eyes
Road to hell- see it believe it
"One billion individual measurements of a thermometer combine to produce the clearest picture of our warming planet from 1850 to 2025
The last 11 years have been warmest 11 years on record"
https://t.co/5NJDumKPzD