@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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FYI: the combination of habitat & wildlife destruction and toxic, plastic, light, & noise pollution driven by the race for profit and growth will at this rate result in mass extinction in the next decades
Capitalism will ruinthe Earth by 2050, Scientists Say Oct 2020

ALT Capitalism will ruinthe Earth by 2050, Scientists Say Oct 2020

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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.

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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HARD TO BELIEVE BUT TRUE: ~20-60% of Earth's species committed to extinction due to economic activities of the capitalist era (especially industrial agriculture) by mid-century
Ben See@ClimateBen1h
Extinction at 2.1-3°C and rising by the 2040s • global warming accelerating • unstoppable feedbacks in play • carbon sinks have become sources • emissions nowhere near plummeting • projection valid even if emissions fall • Establishment scientists were wrong
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Ben See@ClimateBen1h
Extinction at 2.1-3°C and rising by the 2040s • global warming accelerating • unstoppable feedbacks in play • carbon sinks have become sources • emissions nowhere near plummeting • projection valid even if emissions fall • Establishment scientists were wrong
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Extinction at 2.1-3°C and rising by the 2040s • global warming accelerating • unstoppable feedbacks in play • carbon sinks have become sources • emissions nowhere near plummeting • projection valid even if emissions fall • Establishment scientists were wrong
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Biodiversity destruction and pollution ongoing. The rate of change is broadly unsurvivable. xitter.cf/ClimateBen/status/2112…
Ben See@ClimateBenOct 20
UPDATE: scientists confirm the rate of climate change has now begun to exceed 0.4°C per decade implying extinction within 3 to 6 decades
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UPDATE: scientists confirm the rate of climate change has now begun to exceed 0.4°C per decade implying extinction within 3 to 6 decades
Ben See@ClimateBen19 Jun 2024
Scientists fear the rate of climate change has now begun to exceed 0.4°C per decade 🧵
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Several papers now confirm warming has been at 0.4°C/decade for years/decades. 1.5-1.9°C 2020s ✔ 1.9-2.3°C 2030s 2.3-2.7°C 2040s (assuming no more acceleration) xitter.cf/ClimateBen/status/2112…
Ben See@ClimateBenOct 20
Replying to @safrace
1. carbonbrief.org/pace-of-glob…

Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, reveals study - Carbon Brief

An acceleration in human-caused global warming could see the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C limit breached before 2030, a new study suggests.…

carbonbrief.org
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Media Lens
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The BBC have been “very compliant to Israel, reporting their arguments even where it’s screamingly obvious, even to viewers, that what's happening in Gaza is an international scandal,” a BBC insider has said. [...] The anonymous BBC insider said there’s “still a tendency to refer back to the Hamas attack on the festival as if that was a balancing moment against what has come up subsequently.” The source continued: “There's a tendency for the BBC to hide behind objectivity” instead of doing “the core journalism job of bringing truth to power”. While BBC staff are afraid to speak out “because of the threat of job losses and restructuring. And that there’s a malaise within the organisation where people feel troubled by how things are progressing,” the source said. via @ScotNational archive.ph/uw3ZI
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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...

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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

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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...

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Oh really? Which one technology will stop pollution and deforestation as well as abrupt climate change?
Mick Mechanics@MickMechanics11h
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@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@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@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
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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@ClimateBenOct 21
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

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