I said it back in the beginning of summer and I'll say it again now. Multiple extremes of different kinds happening at the same time are clear warnings of climate tipping points:
“We call it ‘flickering’ when a complex system starts to briefly sample a new regime before tipping into it.
"Let’s hope I’m wrong on that," said University of Exeter climate researcher Tim Lenton.
I said it back in the beginning of summer and I'll say it again now. Multiple extremes of different kinds happening at the same time are clear warnings of climate tipping points:
Sometimes when I see the Twitter prompt I just wanna scream THE POLAR ICE CAPS ARE MELTING REALLY FAST AND IT'S GOING TO REALLY SUCK FOR BILLIONS OF COASTAL PEOPLE and I hope decision makers can fund some more research to learn how fast it will happen.
🌡️35.4°C à Cambo-les-Bains (64) par effet de foehn sur le relief basque (maximale provisoire à 15h) !
Il s'agit des 35°C les plus précoces jamais mesurés de manière fiable en France et un record national pour une 1re décade de mai (35.1, St-Martin-de-Hinx (40), 10/05/2012)
Some of the world's best climate researchers have issued another grim warning about interacting climate feedbacks that could accelerate global warming beyond current projections.
What really bothers me about people who dismiss
#COP28
as a farce is that they are dissing the young people who come here to literally fight for their lives, their future.
@JYSexton
I started realizing this at the start of the Trump area, and it's where the media has failed most, trying to describe what's going on through a rational lens that's just not valid anymore.
In September, near the end of the melt season, you can see how Greenland's glaciers are fraying, shrinking and retreating, easing the way for the massive ice sheet to sag toward the ocean.
When we FINALLY figure out that carbon capture isn't going to save us, the next big pitch from the tech bros is going to be solar geoengineering because "it's too late for anything else."
2019 was the year of smart, strong women speaking louder than ever about
#GlobalWarming
. This is Helga Kromp-Kolb, one of Austria's leading climate scientists, saying why we should ALL be marching in the streets.
#FridaysForFuture
@laurimyllyvirta
This article says China only financed 13% of coal projects outside China between 2013 and 2019, with the rest from institutional investors like Vanguard, BlackRock and the Capital Group.
The observed increase in ocean stratification is "yet another climate science prediction come true," said climate scientist
@rahmstorf
, with
@PIK_Climate
, and is slowing the critical thermohaline circulation, which helps distribute heat energy globally.
This guy is like the matryoshka doll of climate denial, packing multiple pieces of dis- and misinformation inside each other, and finally, when you get to the core, it's empty.
Every time I walk by this ficus growing bravely inside an urban mall I stroke it and it whispers to me, “Get me outta here, Buddy, I can’t breathe!”
#thicktrunktuesday
It still really crushes me sometimes that some people can live in a warming world where glaciers, coral reefs and forests are dying before our eyes, and still deny the reality of global warming and its causes and solutions.
How can the U.S. speak credibly and try to assume climate leadership when it has no clear plan to phase out fossil fuels itself, and continues to ramp up production?
Serious question, looking for answers.
Reporting on
#forests
,
#GlobalWarming
and bark beetles this week. Scary. It's 3 a.m. and I'm afraid to sleep. I know I'll be having
#climatedreams
tonight.
How it started How it's going
How close are we to global climate tipping points? "We must admit that we have underestimated the risks of unleashing irreversible changes, where the planet self-amplifies global warming," says
@jrockstrom
-
Greenland's glaciers are thinning, accelerating and driving ice sheet decline past a tipping point. If climate warming continues, the ice is doomed, says
@climate_ice
-
I started reporting on atmospheric river storms for
@insideclimate
in 2019 with a story explaining how ARs fuel much of the flood damage in the West and how global warming will intensify them.
And followed up with this 2021 story.
The findings in the
#NCA4
are dire, but even now, some models still may be underestimating how
#GlobalWarming
will intensify dangerous climate extremes, said
@MichaelEMann
-
Apparently we just lived through the warmest year on record in Austria, going back at least to the 1700s and probably a lot longer. I have a really interesting Twitter thread I want to tell about that
#AustriaWX
... ... 1/
Along with pyrocene and anthropocene, we might need to add "hydrocene" to our climate vocabulary, or maybe we should find new words for a new world, right,
@seasonalight
?
Some clouds reflect heat, some trap it, but a new study says
#GlobalWarming
is changing clouds in ways that will amplify their heating effect and reduce their cooling.
It's been nearly a year since countries agreed on the High Seas Treaty, another big promise made by leaders to protect the planet's oceans.
So far, only 1 country, Palau, has ratified:
I am just appalled by the media coverage of
@POTUS
's decision to approve the Willow oil drills in Alaska.
WHY is the framing "Biden vs the activists," when even the
@IEA
says that meeting the 1.5C target of the
#ParisAgreement
requires no new fossil energy development?
THREAD
@DrewRPearce
@steviedubyu
Yes! I keep saying to people, "Hey, we created high-CO2 behavior in just one generation (mine, sadly); we should be able to "unlearn" it just as fast.
@brianbeutler
@daveweigel
We have hardly any journalists in the U.S. with this type of attitude because most are too busy scheming about maintaining their access.
These decaying glacier landscapes break my heart. So irreversible on any meaningful human timescale. When they're gone, they're GONE. And now they are starting to catastrophically collapse more frequently.
Romans discussing Mt. Vesuvius in AD 79:
- it always shakes & rumbles like that
- SO2 cleanses the soul
- Emperor Trumpasius says there is no threat
- Pliny is just an alarmist
- It is so beautiful at night
- It is the will of Jupiter
-
#climatechange
#climatecrisis
Still a lot of work to be done, but this is a breakthrough and big step toward
#climatejustice
. Worth waiting around most of last night and today.
#COP27
#lossanddamage
It needs to be said again, sorry/not sorry. Dubai is a polluted hellhole of toxic petro-masculinity and cancerous capitalism. Having a climate conference there is like having an AA meeting at Oktoberfest.
Good morning
#COP28
Let's all breath deep and get something done that actually matters for this amazing planet of ours. We need to feel each other, listen, and speak, with heart, and look deeply for solidarity. We're all brothers and sisters on this blue orb. ☮️
@latifnasser
Fascinating! Paleo-politics. Thanks for posting this. One could probably make other matchups, with fossil fuel belts, for example, even on a global scale.
Facing the massive ice front of the Thwaites Glacier in the Antarctic gloom,
@JD_Kirkham
said he could feel the looming existential threat to coastal cities around the world ...