There’s only so much heat and flooding land can take. If this keeps up, which it will, we’ll all be paying a lot more for food, until theres no more left to buy, large scale at least. And no, the breadbasket growing areas won’t be moving to higher latitudes. 🌍
Even as a non scientist I’m pretty sure the Jet Stream will never return to it’s more defined state. Just within the last few years it’s deteriorated into a tattered ribbon. The Southern Jet Stream looks like it’ll follow suit.
10 yrs ago or more, Arctic scientists Shakhova et al, reported at least 50 gigaton of Ch4 was highly likely to suddenly release from the East Siberian Shelf. When that happens it will double current Co2 E in a matter of weeks. (A 🧵 ) 1/10
Everyone, meet 2023’s latest villain: the doomer. You see their pessimism ridiculed from the Guardian to the Washington Post.
But are they really wrong about the climate crisis, or are we just unwilling to face the magnitude of the problem? 1/6
Its inevitable that flying will be severely restricted as climate chaos wakes people up. My message to young people; do what ever you can to avoid immigrating anywhere that requires a long haul flight. 🌏
The climate crisis/collapse feels like it’s gone up a notch in public awareness, even in the last few days. I guess fires, floods, giant hail stones and boiling ocean’s will do that….🌎
As always this women nails it. All the eco realists aka doomers I know, and unfortunately for me most are online, are passionate about our planet. They didn't reach eco realism overnight, it's a stage one gets to when you connect the dots usually after years of hope. 🌍
@jasonhickel
Oliver Stone eloquently tells this in “Untold History of the United States” a TV series. I doubt this got any awards or any acknowledgement in being one of the most enlightening documentary series ever made.
Looks like the jet stream in the northern hemisphere (left) has totally lost the plot. Can someone who understands this stuff confirm that this is not normal, for anytime of the year?
Sea surface temperatures warming faster than expected. Land mass warming faster than expected. Ice sheets melting faster than expected. Glaciers melting faster than expected. Fires spreading faster than expected. Permafrost thawing faster than expected. Did I forget anything? 🌍
It’s expected Earth will reach 1.5 degrees above global industrial average by this time next year. The fires, floods, droughts, storms will be much worse than this year + everyone , everywhere will be affected. 🌏
Climate is headed for a new frontier. Here’s how we know. Earth’s energy imbalance also informs us about how much we need to do to stop global warming. See — Uh-Oh:
Wow! This has to be the most direct, no bullshit message to humanity in one essay I’ve ever read. There are many collapse acceptance people out there, maybe not many but it’s a growing group. I’ve never seen our reality laid out so well. Thank you Jessica Wildfire.
We're approaching a 2C world, and all the wishful thinking in the world isn't going to stop it. I thought I would write something in honor of September's record-breaking heat.
It's Time to Look Up
We all keep asking why does gov keep the drilling going? Why hasn’t the industry been nationalized by now? It’s self destructive etc. The pentagon’s leaked report, all those yrs ago, stated ‘global warming is the biggest threat to National Security’. 3/10
For the newbies on here just tuning in to our climate predicament and feeling anxious and alone. Know there’s millions out there going through the same thing, it may not seem like it but it’s true. I don’t have any advice to give you honestly other than look after yourself.
For those of you who think Prof. Michael Mann is the
#1
scientist to listen to, get over it. He’s a scientist that’s not willing to admit we’re beyond worse case scenario at this point and earths climate system is out of control 🌎
If you’re unfamiliar with the name Michael Dowd & you’re collapse aware, perhaps close to collapse acceptance, you’re in for a treat. I doubt anyone has more resources online than Michael Dowd. He’s generously left us all an abundance of knowledge and support. He’s a huge loss 💔
An abrupt mass extinction event will occur. Her 7 years rigorous Arctic field (twice a year) research was dismissed by the US science establishment + dismissed as, just wrong. Not sure if it was even peer reviewed ? 2/10
🚨🚨🚨Turn up the sound & listen to the terror of these poor folks fleeing the Maui wildfires.
Don’t turn a blind eye.
These are REAL people dying in the climate crisis.
“I want you to act as if our house is on fire. Because it is.”
-Greta Thunberg
@Rubberbandits
I listened to that podcast, I learned, I laughed. I forwarded to my two sons in their early twenties + my 60 year old husband, posted on Twitter. You’re a good man with a good heart and great insight. Keep talking Blindboy. I don’t care if you have a bucket over your head. 😘
H is for Hopium. There’s never been a shortage of hope. Hope is why emissions have doubled in recent yrs. It’s why we ignored voices like Carl Sagan & the truth tellers who wrote Limits to Growth. Hope tells us it’ll all work out in the end. I “hope” your book kicks that addition
I’m thrilled to announce my upcoming book "H Is for Hope," an exploration of climate change and the uncertainties of our future in 26 alphabetical essays--beautifully, hauntingly illustrated by Wesley Allsbrook. Available 3/26 and for preorder now!
Sea ice continues to grow slower than average in the
#Antarctic
(austral winter), which has led to an even larger extent anomaly in the last few days. An obvious record low for this time of year. Yikes.
See more graphics at: . Data from
@NSIDC
.
When people are afraid to speak out against the killing of 7000 civilians, 2700 of which are children, society is in serious trouble.
When politicians throughout the world get behind a known criminal like Netanyahu, society is in serious trouble. A very long 🧵
1/19
Start looking at it from the perspective that those in power know. Maybe not every senator. For sure every pres is briefed on the biggest national threat. Now let’s assume the Pentagon didn’t dismiss Shakhova et al. They would have had to make a decision at one point 4/10
@edgarrmcgregor
I find it odd + sad that a small, well informed group of so called doomers, who are in fact realists, are being targeted as “a problem” when in reality the majority of civilization is oblivious to the real dangers facing them. We’re in a mass extinction event. That’s the reality
If Shakhova was right + earth is hit with 50 gig of Ch4 =abrupt mass extinction within weeks. The point is this alone would end civilizations AND it’s cycle of destruction. (Provided power plants had been secured first) Keeping in mind Ch4 is NOT long lasting, 5/10
Those in power have had at least 40 years to put a back up plan in place to the inevitable collapse that’s building globally right now. Fires/floods/droughts. Let’s just say I don’t think the underground bunker scene in don’t look up is far fetched. 8/10
It’s out of control. The jet stream is no longer recognizable. Earth is on it’s own path now and humanity has no control at this point. Good nor bad, at least not in the bigger picture. I literally feel my heart contorted with every breath 🌍
What I’d like to know now is if there’s an effort in place to secure global nuclear plants for this event and what creatures have they rounded up besides pollinators? 🌏
#CollspseAcceptance
10/10 end 🧵
I have a love hate relationship with Twitter. No one around me wants to talk about our planetary predicament, including me. Do they know I ask myself? When I hear talk about the future I wait for a clue. Nothing. I say things like. Let’s drink some water while we still can.
Speaking of 2.0°C ... this is a must-watch from
@Dr_Gilbz
"At 2°C the Himalayas will lose half of their snow and ice and almost all Mountain glaciers outside of the Arctic Antarctic and Himalaya will completely disappear..."
Temp on earth would likely re-stabilize within a relatively short period of time. Earth would continue to warm but without the destructive force of a very large civilization. No gov has attempted to control the ff Ind. why? it’s not because a lot of money is being made 6/10
Some say if the masses understood how bad it really is, there would be panic and mayhem. Grief is the step to acceptance, followed by an overwhelming love for all living things. Maybe love might saturate and overcome the hate? BS~i know, it’s nice to pretend from time to time
Some believe the collapse was avoidable. I believe Catton’s OVERSHOOT was correct and I think the Pentagon & powers that be did too, when he wrote it in 1980 9/10
White phosphorus burning flesh to the bone. It was never about rooting out Hamas or freeing the hostages. It’s about killing as many Palestinians as possible, especially before the world gets its shit together and demands an end to the
#genocide
This is no war.
#EthnicCleansing
If all the billionaires on Maui alone banded together they could rebuild Lahaina as a gift to the people and it wouldn’t make a dent in their net worth
The build back of Lahaina, Maui is an opportunity for
#LandBack
to Native Hawaiians
And should not at all be an option for opportunists to do their continual landgrabbing
Which it is. Nor because the deniers are in power, which they often are not. (Clinton/ Obama) It’s not because they don’t understand, or care because they’ll be dead. True, but most have kids/grandkids too. 7/10
This sums up our predicament. The nature of civilization could never be self sustaining on a finite planet. Whomever chopped down the tree is irrelevant. We’re all contributing to the current breakdown of our biosphere by just existing. Ecocide is the existence of civilization 🌏
Co2 422ppm + thats not including all the Ch4 belching from the thawing permafrost & other gas’s (correct me if I’m wrong) has turned the jet stream into a drunken mess and is making total shit of the house 🌍
I don’t have the stomach to read this today. I’ve come to understand that civilization, overshoot & carrying capacity means Civilization never really had a chance. The question now is; what is the speed of acceleration from here? 🌍
My graphic showing cumulative change in the mass of reference glaciers around the world has been updated now with 2022's data. The trajectory is clear.
Graphic available at: . More info: .
I think you’re right. I was 15 marching in an anti nuclear rally in Limerick city 1979 ish. Ireland has no nuclear power stations. All my adult life I believed the waste could never be acceptable. But now look at us. If life on earth is gonna make it, we better make it quick
This is what
#ClimateCollapse
looks like: Major Insurance co. abandoning the state of
#Florida
.
#California
is next. If I were a betting person I’d say before the year is out. Between the record breaking
#heat
and
#floods
,
#Insurance
companies limits to loss is about to max out🌍
We really are a pathetic species. We’re hurtling into climate chaos + we still haven’t figured out that any old growth trees still lucky enough to be standing on this abused planet is a fucking miracle. Instead of receiving the reverence it deserves we hack it to death.
#Ecocide
Rationalizing the cutting of old growth has become part of the US Forest Service mission. A complete lack of integrity has left foxes guarding the chickens. They have blood on their lips and are covered with feathers…….and could care less.
These children are not unfortunate victims caught in the crossfire. They are being carpet bombed because Israel and the US gov does not see them as human. Both countries have managed to keep the rest of the world hostage and turning a blind eye to genocide. It’s unforgivable.
So
#BrianMcHugh
is following
#Prof
.MichaelMann’s lead. Blocking eco realists like me. I’m a nobody so it doesn’t really matter. What matters is that Michael Mann is blocking other climate scientists who don’t agree with him & Journalists are following suit. Appreciate RT thx 🙏
So easy to switch off and ignore the carnage, the trauma, the pain but we have to put the pressure on our governments to end this genocide because those supporting this have no conscience. There’s no denying there’s a genocide taking place and not a war of self defense
@iconickevin
Not worth it. He just hides comments he doesn't like so no one sees them, then blocks & maybe reports you as a "troll." He's a shill for the US establishment & globalists, another "expert" talking head to parrot their propaganda narratives mixed with corrupted science. Besides...
If these photos were coming out of London or Los Angeles imagine the uproar from world leaders and the world at large? Are the people of Israel, regular citizens seeing these images? Do they know how extreme the slaughter is?
When the water coming into our homes is rationed we might respond appropriately to the
#ClimateEmergency
. And maybe when crops fail due to drought or lack of pollinators, we’ll go into
#ClimateEmergencyMode
? NO watering lawns was an appropriate response years ago ffs.
For the first time ever, one of the water intake pipes in Lake Mead — responsible for supplying Las Vegas with water — is visible above the lake's surface.
We are in a climate emergency.
Our story
@currently
:
I used to blame humanity but without sounding like a broken record, William Catton’s OVERSHOOT helps put it all into perspective. Yes, the FF industry promoted doubt + they should pay every $ in profits toward reducing the suffering, as life as we know it disintegrates 🌍
@polimatt1
Tell her to spend more time with those she loves. Tell her it’s not her fault or weight to carry. Tell her she’s done her part, to look after herself and be of comfort to those who seek it 🌍
The whole permafrost thaw, methane release and the threat that poses is probably the least talked about part of climate breakdown. It’s like everyone is saying, let’s not even go there. 🤞
Majority of your followers got the movie, naturally. I wonder will it open closed minds, those in denial? If not, hopefully the conversations it has instigated will. I cried, my husband fell asleep. He doesn’t know it but like most, he’ll only get it on impact
#ClimateEmergency
I’ll go with
#4
and add dumping the
#doomer
tag for the
#EcoRealist
. We know the majority of so called doomers care deeply for how civilization manages collapse and that word doesn’t do us Justice 🌏
Climate change and
#collapse
are intensifying. The voices of those that recognise the nature and severity of our
#overshoot
predicament are strong and growing.
At this point in time, what do you think needs to be the ‘doomer’ priority on Twitter?
@MrMatthewTodd
@TODAYshow
Sadly I think many scientists are saying one thing in public and being more frank in private.
The scientists I’m listening to at the moment — like James Hansen, Leon Simons and Eliot Jacobson — are being very frank about the predicament we’re in.
I *really* recommend this book:
The sound of slaughter in Gaza tonight, brought to you by US & Israeli governments along with a bunch of heinous European bastards. FACE THE TRUTH don’t squirm & scroll, share. Let THE world hear the sound of dying people. It’s not a movie. You won’t be hearing CUT. This is HELL
It dawned on me about a yr ago that those in power have been aware civilization is going down no matter what. Greed & perhaps a lack of vision they chose to keep it under wraps. Pump $ into military and the militarization of police to shield themselves for as long as possible
More and more penguin colonies have been affected by sea ice loss in the last few years…
…but we've never seen regional breeding failure at this scale.
Here's the full story ⬇️
📸 and paper from
@PeterTFretwell
Change course? It’s not that no one’s behind the wheel. We are homo colossus and there’s no getting around it. I’m sorry. Don’t swallow the hopium. It numbs the pain but it’ll wear off sooner or later.
#CollapseAcceptance
💚
Bottom line? At 2°C, 25% of the world might become uninhabitable. Where living becomes a gamble with death. This isn't dystopian fiction. It's the reality we're hurtling toward. Read, understand, and let's change course while we can. 7/7.
Terms like positive feedback loops, exponential, cascading, thermodynamics and that Faustian fucking bargain are becoming more evident every day. I’m on here to avoid being a mood hover in my world. Likes not necessary. I know I’m not alone. A comforting thought 🥰🌍
We shouldn’t be shocked by Israel’s decades long imprisonment of children. They don’t recognize Palestinians as human. And neither does the US gov and other world leaders it seems.
Five-year-old Palestinian child, Mohammed Rabi Alian, was summoned by the
#Israeli
occupation for interrogation on charges of 'throwing stones.' A video taken in 2019 shows the child on his way to the police station in
#Jerusalem
, accompanied by his father, carrying a bag of
Realizing that we were always going to go extinct does help see the futility in blame. It’s staring us in the face, everything is off the charts yet I’d hazard a guess less than 1% have reached collapse acceptance. 🌏
Please just unfollow me if you are stuck blaming the 1% or blaming oil companies or politicians. Such comments in my threads just feel out-of-touch with where we are.
"Blame" is an expression of anger, a facet of grief. I want to focus on kindness. What I can still do to help.
I’ll say that again for anyone who didn’t get it the first time. $14,000,000,000 to fund a massacre in Gaza, but we don’t have money to feed Americans. So our tax dollars go for Israel’s military but not for food stamps. Criminals in power
If more people risked losing their jobs and maybe even their careers and spoke out, there might be some chance society at large will recognize they’re condoning genocide.
3/3
Breaking News!
Well humanity, we did it, even if just for one day. Yesterday, Nov. 18, was the first time in recorded history that the global 2m surface temperature breached 2.0°C above the 1850-1900 IPCC baseline.
The long-term average remains below 1.5°C. But not for long.
Reading Nomad Century is a waste of time. Seeing as I bought the book I’ll keep reading and make notes as I go. It’s disappointing that the author still thinks there are or will be safer zones. The words Extinction & Overshoot are not in the index, which says it all really.
This is Neekas, Heiltsuk Territory. All of these salmon went into the creek, the creek dried up b/c of no rain so far this fall, and just died, and this is just one reach! Global warming is killing everything. This is such a sad scene. Video credit, Sarah Mund
#GENOCIDE
I have uprooted your olive trees so you have no oil to drink or trade
I have leveled your house so you have no home to stay
I have fenced you all in so you must ask to leave
1/3
@alloutnow
You’re right. I’m talking long term. I migrated almost 40 years ago but my family and life long friends are still a long haul flight away. Whether it’s a choice not to fly now or not be permitted to fly down the road, it’s a death of sorts. 🌏
It’s why all gov leaders are saying one thing & doing another. i.e. continuing oil subsidies & backing new oil projects.The powers that be reached collapse acceptance along time ago & decided to bury the truth so they could hold onto their lifestyles for as long as possible.
The weaponization of antisemitism is antisemitic. The weaponization of the Holocaust is antisemitic. The slaughter of civilians in Gaza & in the West Bank in the name of defending the Jewish people is antisemitic. Ethnic Cleansing & genocide is barbaric & a crime against humanity
@lostblackboy
My youth worked as a nanny for a celeb div fam. The mother was verbally abusive to me & kids, nightmare job. Worked evenings w/ no notice. Plans for Ella Fitzgerald w/bf had to wk last min. Again, Yelling per usual I said “ sorry I’m going to Hollywood bowl” and left. Felt great!
Let’s buy food, while we still can. I ask my son who lives in Brazil. Come home while you still can. His response is; but what if I get stuck there? He gets it. I suspect like me most on here know things are really accelerating now. We’re not in control.
His stance on climate explains why banks are still funding fossil fuels investment. Government subsidies also indicate denial. Denial is endemic in the power structure which explains why we’re moving at a snails pace relative to the problem
This is so dystopian. The most advanced technology in the world wielded against unarmed men, women and children. What are they suggesting here, that all citizens surrender? Hopefully someone will add translation
Israeli occupation forces sent drones with speakers threatening civilians in Masafer Yatta, south Hebron, not to resist in any way.
The barbaric message stated: "I advise you to not resist in any form, or we will kill you."
We’re in OVERSHOOT - Collapse Acceptance is very, very hard. Accepting a Genocide that I can’t accept, that’s much harder. So, being “the chosen one” is being infallible and this somehow helps with the Christian airlift to heaven on the last day. Is that what this is about?
How often will people flee from hellscapes like
#Greece
before the penny drops that this is a climate emergency? This is not just a minor local incident that disrupted a one-off holiday. The situation will only escalate unless significant mitigation is taken - 2021 video.
A few days ago my husband overheard my son and his Jewish friends talking about the genocide happening in Gaza. My husband warned them to be careful when speaking about this. That might get them in serious trouble. He told me this, obviously thinking it was the best 1/3
They’ve added a mega yacht to their list of must haves. I mean they will need to get some fresh air and have a place big enough to invite friends over. I’m thinking I might take up a bit of sailing & fencing and spend end times as a pirate queen 😊
The super rich keep telling us not to panic while they build evermore elaborate bunkers and promote emergency food kits. Meanwhile, flowers bloom in Antarctica.
“Consistent with a prominent hypothesis associating Arctic amplification and persistent weather extremes, we show that the summer atmospheric circulation over the North Atlantic has become wavier and link this wavier flow to more prevalent Greenland blocking.” 2/
North & southern jet streams are at it again, equatorial intermingling. Could it be possible they may soon be overcome with lassitude and take us into bipolar jet stream disorder of seasonal chaos?
There is a collective desire to believe it’s still possible to turn this around. Michael Mann et al, provide that comforting delusion. He’s the soother in the baby’s mouth as it doses off. You keep trying to wake the baby
@NickCowern
@NiranjanAjit
@davidrvetter
@DrJamesEHansen
Why don't journalists ask these complex questions to scientists who spend their days studying and publishing on these subjects, instead to the loudest voice on Twitter, who blocks anyone who disagrees with him?
Don’t turn away. These men are literally gathering pieces of a toddlers body. The least we can do is share the images these desperate people are taking the time to record. Children are being massacred. Keep the pressure up to stop the
#GenocideByIsrael
They need us to look & feel
What in the name of Jesus Christ or whomever the fuck turned the IDF into such evil bastards. They’re young men & women who love and are loved. This level of hated for Palestinians has to be programmed into them from a young age. Netanyahu with the help of US has created monsters
Why is this happening? Why can’t we stop it? What’s wrong with us? A serpent has wormed its way out of the bowels of the earth, its shedding it skin every single day and it will devour us all. Pure Fucking Evil!
@WarWatchs
This massacre was committed yesterday by Israeli terrorist occupation army against the Al-Bursh, Al Elwan and Al Suleiman families. They directly targeted their homes and wiped out their families 💔💔
Israel has corralled most of the 2 million + people from one pretend safe place to another pretend safe place. Flyers from the sky announcing the area is about to be bombed + to move. Tired, injured, hungry, thirsty, mourning. Torturing an entire population to death. Horrifying.
It’s all happening as we speak but not everyone is paying attention. Between working long hours, raising kids, you can’t blame people for looking away from disaster news. Watching a good show at the end of a long day is too hard a distraction to resist. Hell is coming regardless
August 24, 2023: World temperature is 16.95°C, 0.89°C higher than 1979-2000. We're deep into uncharted territory! A catastrophe of unimaginable proportions is unfolding! Life is disappearing from Earth and runaway heating could destroy all life on Earth!
It’s tragic that as a scientist one of your few platforms to reach the public is X. I’m sure you know the many inane comments are from an ignorant minority. Thank you for telling the truth.
The United Nations and COP28 are lying. They know the 1.5C and 2C global warming targets are dead. Young people can and should take charge of their future. More later. See: “A Miracle Will Occur” Is Not Sensible Climate Policy -