Scientists caught off-guard by record temperatures linked to climate change
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-weather-climatechange-science-idUSKCN1061RH?rpc=401 …
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.@MichaelEMann, @tomcarlpeterson & @ClimateComms: correlation between #climatechange and stronger hurricanes is real
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"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 …Show 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 …Show 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 …Show this thread
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