Ben See

Literature Teacher sharing info/news on Rapid Extinction & Earth Systems Collapse. Urging radical, systemic, political-economic change to try to limit the doom.

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

Remember:

1. The oceans are being killed.
2. Forests will soon be gone.
3. Fertile soil is disappearing.
4. Megafauna risk extermination.
5. Insects are vanishing.
6. Climate chaos is inevitable.
7. Extinction is now.
8. Plastic is in our blood.

None of this is front page news.

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

SURELY DEVASTATING: ‘What Earth’s history tells us is that these are really dramatic events with big impacts on ecosystems. Surely in the modern world with 8 billion people on this planet, they would be devastating for the stability of our society.’

[Media Lens @medialens]

The Atlantic Meridional Ocean Circulation (AMOC) works like a central heating system for western Europe.

Europe therefore enjoys a relatively mild and stable climate.

The amount of heat provided by the AMOC corresponds to around 50 times the entire energy consumption of humanity.

Scientific reconstructions of the AMOC from paleoclimatic data show that after being stable for about the last millennium, the AMOC has weakened over the 20th and 21st centuries.

It is now at the weakest it has been in at least a thousand years.

Professor Stefan Rahmstorf, a climate scientist at the Potsdam Institute in Germany says:

'...if we continue on a high-emission path we may run around a 70 per cent risk of the AMOC shutting down.’

He warns:

‘What Earth’s history tells us is that these are really dramatic events with big impacts on ecosystems. Surely in the modern world with 8 billion people on this planet, they would be devastating for the stability of our society.’

@rahmstorf

What does it say about the new Prime Minister @andyburnham that climate barely merited a mention in an hour-long speech about his vision of the future?

And what does it say about the ‘mainstream’ media that he was not lambasted for ignoring the severity of the threat hanging over all of us?

From our latest media alert:

https://t.co/73v0pN0Wk6

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

EXTRAORDINARY: anticipate 1.7-1.9°C of global warming for the first time over the coming 12 months (don't expect mass extinction media to warn us)

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

We're now starting to hit increasingly unsurvivable ~1.62-2.02°C and rising rapidly (mainstream conservative figures) in 2026-27. Mass media owners, editors, and journalists silent. Shame.

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

Quite worrying?

Utterly terrifying..

https://t.co/jFJ3aNkPHv

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

Suddenly, Zeke Hausfather is talking about the full range of possible global warming being masked by aerosols. He denies the capitalist-growth system has locked in catastrophic abrupt change, but he knows it has.

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

Every single owner, editor, and journalist of the mass media with a focus on climate change knows we can't adapt/thrive/survive at 2-2.5°C. They know the most optimistic scientists fully expect this in the next decade (or two maximum). They won't tell the public though. SHAME.

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

FYI: 6th mass extinction study, described by its authors as "conservative", said humans were likely to be among the species lost. "If it is allowed to continue, life would take many millions of years to recover and our species itself would likely disappear early on" ~G. Ceballos

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

EARTH'S CLIMATE SYSTEM IS BROKEN ~ Andrew Dessler & Zeke Hausfather. Capitalism and growth have ruined humanity's chances of thriving/surviving. 2.1-2.9°C to hit by 2040s.

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

capitalism:
• will not stop destroying biodiversity
• has set up global warming of 1.7-2°C within months and 2-2.5°C within years (obviously catastrophic)

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

Under the managed land proxy method, each square meter of Polish roundwood would be credit as removing three tons of CO2: The more trees are cut down and sold, the better off the planet. As Searchinger noted, “This is physically backwards and incoherent.”
https://t.co/KrEwLmWS0T

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

BREAKING: A scandal is rocking the world of carbon emissions accounting.

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

The rate of global warming is off the charts, with average temperatures now rising 0.1°C every 18-30 months. 'Every tenth of a degree matters'? Not to the Extinction Economy it doesn't.

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

EARTH'S CLIMATE SYSTEM IS BROKEN ~ Andrew Dessler & Zeke Hausfather. Capitalism and growth have ruined humanity's chances of thriving/surviving. 2.1-2.9°C to hit by 2040s.

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

https://t.co/yZITroG3Iz

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

We're now starting to hit increasingly unsurvivable ~1.62-2.02°C and rising rapidly (mainstream conservative figures) in 2026-27. Mass media owners, editors, and journalists silent. Shame.

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

capitalism:
• will not stop destroying biodiversity
• has set up global warming of 1.7-2°C within months and 2-2.5°C within years (obviously catastrophic)

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

We're now starting to hit increasingly unsurvivable ~1.62-2.02°C and rising rapidly (mainstream conservative figures) in 2026-27. Mass media owners, editors, and journalists silent. Shame.

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

@DoctorVive @hausfath @SenWhitehouse Some interesting context..

https://t.co/WVmFtgZXW7

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

EARTH'S CLIMATE SYSTEM IS BROKEN ~ Andrew Dessler & Zeke Hausfather. Capitalism and growth have ruined humanity's chances of thriving/surviving. 2.1-2.9°C to hit by 2040s.

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

EARTH'S CLIMATE SYSTEM IS BROKEN ~ Andrew Dessler & Zeke Hausfather. Capitalism and growth have ruined humanity's chances of thriving/surviving. 2.1-2.9°C to hit by 2040s.

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

Climate scientists @AndrewDessler and @hausfath say, given the extremes of 2023-27, the climate system is 'broken' due to economic activities of the capitalist era. What do they mean exactly? Has anyone asked them???

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

@brianjpempus No, I haven't seen that.

This may be if interest if you haven't come across it before..
https://t.co/aHkxNX6EsH

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

FYI: 6th mass extinction study, described by its authors as "conservative", said humans were likely to be among the species lost. "If it is allowed to continue, life would take many millions of years to recover and our species itself would likely disappear early on" ~G. Ceballos

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

7. Without any significant doubt, we're now entering the 6th mass extinction. If allowed to continue, life would take millions of years to recover 'and our species would likely disappear early on'.

To achieve system change we must acknowledge this reality.https://t.co/DIA9TtZD6v

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

@DeanH2963 I'm helping you to read carefully what I wrote.

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

UNSURVIVABLE TIMES:

The planet you think you're living on no longer exists.

[Bill McGuire @ProfBillMcGuire]

Mind-boggling - just mind-boggling

Now expected to peak at an extraordinary 4.2C in December

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

The world is embarking on its sixth mass extinction with animals disappearing about 100 times faster than they used to, scientists warn, and humans could be among the first victims of the next extinction event. https://t.co/DIA9TtZD6v