A series of posts on X about the climate crisis.
Over the past few months I've been posting extreme and record breaking floods and fires across the northern and southern hemisphere that have been fed by global warming causing climate change
— Prof Ray Wills (@ProfRayWills) September 17, 2023
This week, there's too many to do one at a timepic.twitter.com/PA41a9uCIy @Peter_Jelinek https://t.co/LgPbdfy2E5
"Not only does the collapse of modern industrial civilization appear ever more likely, but the process already seems underway."
— Climate Watcher 🔥 (@pmagn) September 17, 2023
3 precursors of imminent dissolution: a persistent pattern of environmental change for the worse like long-lasting droughts; https://t.co/CFWuOvu4wr
Mosquito invasion in Paris: streets closed, people should stay at home
— Climate Watcher 🔥 (@pmagn) September 24, 2023
Paris is fighting the spread of tiger mosquitoes with drastic measures: entire streets have been closed and the population has been asked to stay in their homes https://t.co/OAn1C9IrwK
This post makes important point – it’s cumulative carbon in atmosphere that affects climate, so the “area under the curve” of how you decarbonise that determines how bad the climate crisis gets. Sooner you cut carbon, the better. Rishi Sunak ought to know this. https://t.co/nfAcQSIQZX
— Fiona Harvey (@fionaharvey) September 23, 2023
Antarctic sea-ice at 'mind-blowing' low alarms experts. Dr Meier is not optimistic that the sea-ice will recover to a significant degree.
— Climate Watcher 🔥 (@pmagn) September 17, 2023
"potential for an unstoppable feedback loop of ice melting.. an absolute disaster for the world,"https://t.co/b5vkN72RYe pic.twitter.com/RRqHY6Qj35
We are witnessing the first stages of civilizations' collapse. #ClimateEmergency https://t.co/B30IdLISAu
— Sophie Gabrielle (@CodeRedEarth) September 17, 2023
" Canada—hard as it might be to believe—can be said to be on the verge of becoming a failed state." Re: unable to control fires henceforth pic.twitter.com/Zp4z5lkuTz
What would happen if the world cut meat and milk consumption in half? https://t.co/QZrh4to8zS
— Svein Tveitdal (@tveitdal) September 17, 2023
Cows are often described as climate change criminals because of how much planet-warming methane they burp. But there’s another problem with livestock farming that’s even worse for the…
"It's essentially legalized bribery. Their disinformation campaign is a big part of why the public doesn't understand how serious of an emergency we are in right now."
— Sophie Gabrielle (@CodeRedEarth) September 16, 2023
PETER KALMUS@ClimateHuman #ClimateEmergency #JustStopOil pic.twitter.com/q7FkvKVFpH
We are in a war with the corporate state.
— Sophie Gabrielle (@CodeRedEarth) September 13, 2023
REBELLION is the only way to remain fully human.
We must be soldiers now in the #ClimateEmergency
We are at 1.2C heading past 2C. Use your imagination and feel the terror coming. pic.twitter.com/254FMO8tdP
As a keen mathematician, you’d think @RishiSunak would understand that it’s the path we take to Net Zero that matters: #AreaUnderCurve
— Simon Oldridge (@SiOldridge) September 19, 2023
Delaying key milestones really matters – even if we stick with 2050.
This might help refresh his memory👇 https://t.co/kt7eowgo5Z pic.twitter.com/rv3EVp9C84
One job of a hurricane is to dissipate & redistribute heat. As storms move they churn up the ocean, use/ transport energy, drop heavy-cool rain & upwell cool water from down below. Summer steering took Major Hurricane’s Franklin and Lee over the same region cooling record… 1/ pic.twitter.com/ZNY8qJdNkg
— Jeff Berardelli (@WeatherProf) September 19, 2023
"The Earth Energy Imbalance is now at a record 1.36 Watts per square metre. This looks like a small value, but it corresponds to an average of 11 Hiroshimas of excess energy per second accumulating in Earth’s climate system over the past three years."https://t.co/FPt4odRUS2 pic.twitter.com/KPgITjhAxu
— Harm Saeijs 🇳🇱 (@HarmSaeijs) June 22, 2023
"We are hitting record breaking extremes much sooner than I expected. That’s frightening, scary, and concerning, and it really suggests that we’re not as aware of what’s coming as we thought we were.”
— David Spratt (@djspratt) September 27, 2023
— Dr Sarah Perkins-Fitzpatrick, UNSW #climate https://t.co/dhMNwQDE9N
Truly confused why there aren’t millions on the streets demanding emergency action when every one and thing you love is at risk. Collapse isn’t pretty. It’s violence the likes of which most of us in the west cannot imagine – and it won’t stop. Join Just Stop Oil ffs pic.twitter.com/BboCxyuLec
— Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 (@MrMatthewTodd) September 27, 2023
Are we going to have a revolution? Are we going to get rid of the neoliberalism finally? These are the thoughts going through my mind . I mean how bad does it have to get? Great quote from @ClimateBen #ClimateEmergency pic.twitter.com/K1v8oCCdGl
— Sophie Gabrielle (@CodeRedEarth) September 28, 2023
It was (is?) an apocalyptic summer, and the news isn't getting better.
— ❤️ Umair (@umairh) September 29, 2023
Startling new research concludes that up to a billion people could be lost to climate change. That's bigger than… any war, any plague. 1/7 pic.twitter.com/ttk0LxNzIL
Don't look now 