@ClimateBen

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

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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.
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Ben See retweeted
Ben See@ClimateBen1h
Africa’s forests have undergone a shocking reversal, switching from carbon absorbers to carbon emitters after 2010. Researchers: heavy deforestation in tropical regions has led to massive biomass losses, far outweighing any gains from regrowth elsewhere. sciencedaily.com/releases/20…

Africa’s forests have flipped from carbon sink to carbon source

Africa’s forests have undergone a shocking reversal, switching from carbon absorbers to carbon emitters after 2010. Researchers found that heavy deforestation in tropical regions has led to massive...

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I BET YOU'D FORGOTTEN, HADN'T YOU? RAPID MASS EXTINCTION: Africa's forests now releasing more carbon than they absorb
Africa's forests have flipped from carbon sink to carbon source

ALT Africa's forests have flipped from carbon sink to carbon source

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Africa’s forests have undergone a shocking reversal, switching from carbon absorbers to carbon emitters after 2010. Researchers: heavy deforestation in tropical regions has led to massive biomass losses, far outweighing any gains from regrowth elsewhere. sciencedaily.com/releases/20…

Africa’s forests have flipped from carbon sink to carbon source

Africa’s forests have undergone a shocking reversal, switching from carbon absorbers to carbon emitters after 2010. Researchers found that heavy deforestation in tropical regions has led to massive...

sciencedaily.com
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Oh really? Which one technology will stop pollution and deforestation as well as abrupt climate change?
Mick Mechanics@MickMechanics6h
The elephant in the room is that the loudest voices on extinction are the ones opposing the one technology that can actually fix it.
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Ben See retweeted
Ben See@ClimateBenOct 21
Scientists: Capitalism Will Ruin the Earth By 2050
Capitalism Will Ruin the Earth By 2050, Scientists Say By Nafeez Ahmed October 21, 2020, 9:00am

ALT Capitalism Will Ruin the Earth By 2050, Scientists Say By Nafeez Ahmed October 21, 2020, 9:00am

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Ben See retweeted
Ben See@ClimateBenOct 21
"AEROSOLS have contribute between 0.2°C and 1.2°C cooling." "If it's 1.2°C that would mean climate would be 2.5°C without the cooling." "Yes. That would be a really really bad outcome."
AEROSOLS have contribute between 0.2°C and 1.2°C cooling." "If it's 1.2°C that would mean climate would be 2.5°C without the cooling." "Yes. That would be a really really bad outcome."

ALT AEROSOLS have contribute between 0.2°C and 1.2°C cooling." "If it's 1.2°C that would mean climate would be 2.5°C without the cooling." "Yes. That would be a really really bad outcome."

AEROSOLS have contribute between 0.2°C and 1.2°C cooling." "If it's 1.2°C that would mean climate would be 2.5°C without the cooling." "Yes. That would be a really really bad outcome."

ALT AEROSOLS have contribute between 0.2°C and 1.2°C cooling." "If it's 1.2°C that would mean climate would be 2.5°C without the cooling." "Yes. That would be a really really bad outcome."

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Ben See retweeted
Ben See@ClimateBenOct 21
climate scientists: "this may be why Miocene Climatic Optimum temperatures were 7 - 8°C up on pre-industrial for CO2 levels of just 400 - 600 ppm.. Very, very, scary"
Bill McGuire@ProfBillMcGuireOct 21
Great piece by Tom Harris on cloud feedback The world's cloud cover is reducing, which makes the planet hotter This may be why Miocene Climatic Optimum temperatures were 7 - 8C up on pre-industrial for CO2 levels of just 400 - 600ppm Very, very, scary substack.com/home/post/p-220…
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Anticapitalists have been explaining how capitalism is a nature- & humanity- destroying system for decades and centuries. Scientists now confirm capitalism has caused rapid mass extinction
GeorgeRux
@GeorgeRuxV8Dude11h
Replying to @ClimateBen
Finally! The Commies admit their true agenda!
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Current rate is warming: 0.4-0.5°C/dec: • 1.5°C 2023 • 1.9-2°C 2033 Just seven more years.
Ben See@ClimateBen20h
Rapid Minor/Major Mass Extinction: global warming of 1.9-2°C and rising very likely to hit in next 1-19 years say scientists as biodiversity destruction and pollution accelerate
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Cloud feedback "here to stay" as extinction looms for 40-70% of species:
Ben See@ClimateBenOct 21
AS FEARED: "The world’s clouds are changing. They are covering less overall area and are dimming, with the effect that they reflect less solar radiation back into space. This increase in solar absorption is a major cause of the accelerating warming we are now experiencing."
To determine how close the relationship between Earth’s surface air temperature and cloud area is, we can look at the monthly comparison of temperature versus CAF. Figure 2 below shows that relationship, and it shows it being remarkably linear. This strongly suggests that there is a direct feedback between global mean surface temperature and cloud cover. This is the cloud-temperature feedback. It suggests that as we continue to warm, cloud cover will continue to diminish, pushing up the absorbed solar radiation and continuing to accelerate warming. It doesn’t support the theory that the recent acceleration is temporary and will exist over a limited time period of aerosol adjustment, this feedback is here to stay.

ALT To determine how close the relationship between Earth’s surface air temperature and cloud area is, we can look at the monthly comparison of temperature versus CAF. Figure 2 below shows that relationship, and it shows it being remarkably linear. This strongly suggests that there is a direct feedback between global mean surface temperature and cloud cover. This is the cloud-temperature feedback. It suggests that as we continue to warm, cloud cover will continue to diminish, pushing up the absorbed solar radiation and continuing to accelerate warming. It doesn’t support the theory that the recent acceleration is temporary and will exist over a limited time period of aerosol adjustment, this feedback is here to stay.

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Rapid Minor/Major Mass Extinction: global warming of 1.9-2°C and rising very likely to hit in next 1-19 years say scientists as biodiversity destruction and pollution accelerate
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2C probably before 2050 Hausfather

ALT 2C probably before 2050 Hausfather

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GLOBAL WARMING WILL CONTINUE TO ACCELERATE BECAUSE OF CLOUD-TEMPERATURE FEEDBACK: rapid major mass extinction looks likely to be completed sooner rather than later
Ben See@ClimateBenOct 21
AS FEARED: "The world’s clouds are changing. They are covering less overall area and are dimming, with the effect that they reflect less solar radiation back into space. This increase in solar absorption is a major cause of the accelerating warming we are now experiencing."
To determine how close the relationship between Earth’s surface air temperature and cloud area is, we can look at the monthly comparison of temperature versus CAF. Figure 2 below shows that relationship, and it shows it being remarkably linear. This strongly suggests that there is a direct feedback between global mean surface temperature and cloud cover. This is the cloud-temperature feedback. It suggests that as we continue to warm, cloud cover will continue to diminish, pushing up the absorbed solar radiation and continuing to accelerate warming. It doesn’t support the theory that the recent acceleration is temporary and will exist over a limited time period of aerosol adjustment, this feedback is here to stay.

ALT To determine how close the relationship between Earth’s surface air temperature and cloud area is, we can look at the monthly comparison of temperature versus CAF. Figure 2 below shows that relationship, and it shows it being remarkably linear. This strongly suggests that there is a direct feedback between global mean surface temperature and cloud cover. This is the cloud-temperature feedback. It suggests that as we continue to warm, cloud cover will continue to diminish, pushing up the absorbed solar radiation and continuing to accelerate warming. It doesn’t support the theory that the recent acceleration is temporary and will exist over a limited time period of aerosol adjustment, this feedback is here to stay.

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1.5C 2020s ✔ 1.9C 2030s 2.3C 2040s 2.6-2.7C 2050s The rate of warming is 0.4°C/decade. Emissions are rising...
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK@PIK_ClimateOct 21
Even if every country delivers its climate pledges, the world is on track for around 2.6°C of warming by 2100, says the new UN Emissions Gap Report. PIK’s @jrockstrom warns the damage could be greater still: if the US steps back, others may follow. economictimes.indiatimes.com…

The world is falling further behind on climate action, and the US looms large

Humanity is heading towards a hotter world due to increasing carbon emissions primarily from the United States. The United Nations Environment Programme has updated its climate projections, indicat...

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AEROSOLS:
Leon Simons 🌍
@LeonSimons820 Nov 2023
Replying to @LeonSimons8
To those who want to learn more about aerosols, I highly recommend reading this great @NASAEarth explainer. From 2010, but the basics haven't changed. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/fe…

Aerosols: Tiny Particles, Big Impact - NASA Science

Tiny aerosol particles can be found over oceans, deserts, mountains, forests, ice sheets, and every ecosystem in between. They drift in the air from the stratosphere to the surface. Despite their...

science.nasa.gov
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Media Lens
@medialensOct 21
Factcheck: Nine false or misleading myths about North Sea oil and gas FALSE: ‘Reopening the North Sea would lower bills’ MISLEADING: ‘Energy from the North Sea generates a lot less CO2’ FALSE: ‘Britain is a resource-rich nation that has chosen dependency’ FALSE: North Sea is ‘best way to protect us from volatility and provide energy security’ MISLEADING: ‘The head honchos of the green lobby say we should drill’ FALSE: ‘The UK is the only country in the world banning new oil and gas licenses’ MISLEADING: ‘With new North Sea licences would come thousands of jobs’ MISLEADING: North Sea drilling ‘would secure a rush of revenue into the Treasury’ FALSE: Ed Miliband is an ‘anti-North Sea’ climate change ‘fanatic’ FALSE: ‘We share the same basin with Norway…there is not a geological difference.” from @CarbonBrief carbonbrief.org/factcheck-ni…
Jonathan David Lamb@JonathanDLambOct 21
Replying to @medialens
The Climate Implications of New Oil and Gas Fields in the UK...... Is zero. We are a very small drop in a large ocean. Why bankrupt ourselves for the purpose of virtue signaling?
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RMME: "The deliberate torture and death of billions of people because certain people want to hold on to their power and privilege." ~ @RogerHallamCS21
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We are in a rapid minor/major mass extinction.. xitter.cf/RogerHallamCS21/status…
Roger Hallam
@RogerHallamCS21Oct 21
THE BIGGEST STORY The biggest story of the next decade will not be about reductions in human carbon emissions but rather the exponential increase in the "natural" emissions of carbon - via melting permafrost, ice melt, loss of forest sinks etc. The reason for this possibly amounts to the most terrifying stats on the "climate": the level of human emissions compared with the level of natural emissions in the earth's historical record. "This ancient, or paleoclimate, evidence reveals that current warming is occurring roughly 10 times faster than the average rate of warming after an ice age. Carbon dioxide from human activities is increasing about 250 times faster than it did from natural sources after the last Ice Age.3" Source: science.nasa.gov/climate-cha… This level of momentum behind human emissions surely points to a super non-linear explosion of "natural" emissions as we hit 2C which cannot be stopped. Meaning the ball is speeding up down the hill and we cannot catch it even with massive geo-engineering. Meaning we go over 5C and face effective human extinction. Anyone who looks objectively at this situation has to conclude this is now the main scenario. This is why emissions have to be slashed to zero NOW - to minimise to chances of billions of deaths. This is nothing to do with "politics" - what is objectively needed are revolutions to institute the policies of rapid decarbonisation which are absolutely necessary and absolutely justified. Denial in 2026 is not about the science it is about the political implications of the science. Today, Wednesday 21 October, at 7pm BST, I will speak about how those revolutions come about in the next of a series of mass attendance online calls which are the biggest public assemblies on climate going on in the world right now. actionnetwork.org/events/oct…
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Delaying action to protect profits by underestimating the gravity of the situation. Year after year after year after year the same thing.. Establishment scientists and journalists and editors and owners will be the death of us.
Ben See@ClimateBenOct 21
This is misleading/wrong. We are at 1.5°C and warming is accelerating to 0.4-0.5°C/dec. We face 2.6°C by the 2040s/50s. The UN narrative is bullshit.
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Delaying action to protect profits by underestimating the gravity of the situation. Year after year after year after year the same thing.. Establishment scientists and journalists and editors and owners will be the death of us.
Ben See@ClimateBenOct 21
This is misleading/wrong. We are at 1.5°C and warming is accelerating to 0.4-0.5°C/dec. We face 2.6°C by the 2040s/50s. The UN narrative is bullshit.
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