BREAKING: scientists hold back tears and shake their heads sadly as they explain utterly compromised COP29 climate conference was meant to be the last chance to organise rapid and deep emissions cuts for any chance of staying well below essentially unsurvivable 2°C 🧵
Scientists expect horrific global warming of 1.6-2°C by 2032, triggering the final collapse of major ecosystems, extreme crop-wrecking weather events, widespread global extinction, then more horrific warming from vicious feedbacks, yet media refuse to scream for emergency action.
This is horrific. This is obscene. The World Meteorological Organization just dropped a major new report. 2024 will be the warmest year on record. This is a "red alert." We break down this new study here:
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I’m an atmospheric scientist not a journalist. Don’t expect neutrality on science policy. You’ll find little argument among climate scientists that the setbacks & abdication of American climate leadership expected in the next 4+ years could spell a fatal blow to staying below 2°C
The temperature high was 81 degrees in New York on Wednesday NOVEMBER 6, by the way.
But America elected a climate change denier because the black lady didn’t have the right message for people who never went to college.
We are very close to watering our crops with Gatorade.
The more we heat up the atmosphere and the oceans, the more stunning rainfall extremes we will see. It’s physics. Climate scientists have warned of this for more than three decades.
The climate crisis is the most tragic mass extinction event to ever face Planet Earth, even though it isn't the worst.
Why?
Well, because it was voted for. We chose it. The dinosaurs didn't vote for the meteor.
We know what is happening. We know how to fix it.
We don't care.
1.5C is dead.
2024 will be the hottest year in at least 125,000 years.
And a psychopathic climate denier is leading the most powerful country on Earth.
What a time to be alive (if not for very long).
Breaching 1.5 degrees is bad; the trajectory and prospects are worse; and the new administration bought into fossil fuel industry fraud. Bad, bad combo.
https://t.co/GSCyksTifT
If Donald Trump is defeated by Kamala Harris in the election next week, he faces four criminal cases in New York, Georgia, Florida, and Washington, D.C., all of them carrying prison time. https://t.co/nYsfDhqLiQ
‘Crunch time for real’: UN says time for climate delays has run out
- Means to stop catastrophic global heating exist, says UN chief, but political courage is needed to end world’s fossil fuel addiction
@UNEP#ClimateCrisis
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Cats! Dogs! Geese! Laura Loomer! Look, now he’s attacking Taylor!
Like the last season before a show gets canceled for getting over-the-top and, at the same time, boring.
This election is about jobs, wages, climate, health care, abortion. Not his show. Your life.
Canadian here.
We don’t have prayer in schools, or the Ten Commandments, or God. We also don’t have dead kids.
No Canadian child has ever died in a mass shooting in an elementary school. We have guns. What we don’t have is Republicans.
American has to get rid of Republicans.