Scientists caught off-guard by record temperatures linked to climate change
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@MichaelEMann,@tomcarlpeterson &@ClimateComms: correlation between#climatechange and stronger hurricanes is real https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/what-we-know-about-the-climate-change-hurricane-connection/ …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
"The warm Atlantic current linked to severe and abrupt changes in the climate in the past is now at its weakest in at least 1,600 years". The findings throw into question previous predictions that its catastrophic collapse would take centuries to occur.https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/11/critical-gulf-stream-current-weakest-for-1600-years-research-finds …
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"In the scale of deep time, catastrophe is routine. The only thing that is really novel about climate change, as ecologists keep stressing, is how fast it is happening. It is happening on a human scale, at the speed of generations, years, days, not epochs"https://www.patreon.com/posts/19879929
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@MichaelEMann says that, under a business-as-usual scenario, the mass displacement of billions could trigger an unprecedented national security crisishttps://therealnews.com/stories/extreme-heat-could-make-one-third-of-planet-uninhabitable …2 replies 12 retweets 14 likesShow this thread -
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@NaomiAKlein: “the global neoliberal revolution went supernova, and that project of economic and social reengineering clashed with the imperatives of both climate science and corporate regulation at every turn.”https://twitter.com/theintercept/status/1025434436601610240?s=21 …Bernardo Jurema 🌹 added,
The InterceptVerified account @theintercept“If, on the other hand, we humans really were on the brink of saving ourselves in the ’80s, but were swamped by a tide of elite, free-market fanaticism,” writes@NaomiAKlein, “then there is something quite concrete we can do about it.” https://interc.pt/2OHjKH71 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
“A domino-like cascade of melting ice, warming seas, shifting currents and dying forests could tilt the Earth into a ‘hothouse’ state beyond which human efforts to reduce emissions will be increasingly futile, a group of leading climate scientists warns.”https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/06/domino-effect-of-climate-events-could-push-earth-into-a-hothouse-state?CMP=share_btn_tw …
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“A landmark report from the UN’s scientific panel on climate change paints a far more dire picture of the immediate consequences of climate change than previously thought ...many effects once expected only several decades in the future will arrive by 2040”https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/07/climate/ipcc-climate-report-2040.html …
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@dwallacewells: the new IPCC “report’s worst-case scenario is, actually, a best case. [...] What has been called a genocidal level of warming is already our inevitable future. The question is how much worse than that it will get.”http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/un-says-climate-genocide-coming-but-its-worse-than-that.html …0 replies 4 retweets 1 likeShow this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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