The amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere has reached its annual peak, climbing to 419ppm.
You have to go back over 4 million years to see levels this high to a time before agriculture, before cities by the sea, before civilisation. https://t.co/sfhsG3iv3I
Generating Change For Wednesday, 12:30 p.m.
Women’s Plans Symposium is adding to our aim of universal access to contraception, concern about global heating. The two are intricately linked: population rise and demands are causing climate heating.
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you know, if @KatieAllenMP, #TrentZimmerman & @DaveSharma crossed the floor & voted on:
• net-zero bill by @zalisteggall
• federal ICAC bill by @helenhainesindi
…we’d immediately have both
…they’d be delivering on their constituent’s wishes
…and they’d save their seats.
“We might already have crossed the threshold for a cascade of inter-related tipping points,”
“could trigger a shift in the state of the Earth system as a whole,”
#ClimateCrisis#ClimateChange#ActOnClimate https://t.co/XTakeS9UZF
Within five years atmospheric CO2 will pass 427 parts per million, which was the probable peak of the mid-Pliocene warming period 3.3m years ago, when temperatures were 3C to 4C hotter and sea levels were 20 metres higher than today.
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