BREAKING: heatwave in China described as worst in world climatic history 🧵
1. State-corporate media are silent on extraordinary news:
* scientists say emissions should've peaked and plummeted by July 2017 - June 2022 to avoid profoundly catastrophic 1.5/2°C of global warming
* IPCC calls for political & economic systems change
https://twitter.com/ScottDuncanWX/status/1561040349535113217?t=3tVfP-SVUUD7hLYVHsTCzg&s=19
2. People deserve to know we're being hurtled ever deeper into catastrophe with local & global extinctions looming in the coming years and decades.
Just how bad is the heatwave compared to previous records?
It's clear something extraordinary is happening.https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1561254273656229889?t=3tVfP-SVUUD7hLYVHsTCzg&s=19
3. 'Scientists say extreme weather across the world has become more frequent due to the climate crisis and that urgent global cooperation is needed to slow an impending disaster'
More than that!
The IPCC calls for *political and economic systems change*. https://www.dumptheguardian.com/world/2022/aug/19/chinese-city-dims-lights-as-record-heatwave-hits-energy-supplies
4. The fundamental elements of capitalism including economic growth mean rapid mass extinction at 2.5°C - 6°C this century.
Only economic system change actions starting now might conceivably limit the damage/doom.
1.5/2°C looks unavoidable.
🧵 Thread:
https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1560749900950024192?t=Ryo1wG4MZAfP60L-a3l7VA&s=19 https://t.co/SVkCaoTAIQ
5. This is a planetary catastrophe. Coral reefs which support 25%-33% of ocean species cannot survive. This Extinction Economy is bulldozing Earth's ecosystems into oblivion.
We can and must support independent media and organise for profound change.
🧵⬇️:https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1544974139823464450?t=Ryo1wG4MZAfP60L-a3l7VA&s=19
6. State-corporate media won't explain what needs to happen.
Why would state-corporate media call for system change?!
Threads:
https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1549361595326910465?t=Ryo1wG4MZAfP60L-a3l7VA&s=19
7. People deserve to know that brutal 1.6°C - 2.4°C of global warming will be here in around 20 years' time.
Mass media are virtually totally silent on the very, very real threat of an utterly devastating aerosol termination shock as explained here:
🧵⬇️
https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1465675827333509126?t=Ryo1wG4MZAfP60L-a3l7VA&s=19
8. Until we inform ourselves and each other of the reality of ecological breakdown, political & economic system change which may yet protect species & everyone will elude us.
This Extinction Economy cannot care, it can only wreck lives & ecosystems.
🧵⬇️:https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1524060860607610883?t=Ryo1wG4MZAfP60L-a3l7VA&s=19
9. Explore here for more on the call for immediate emissions reductions.
https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1548436324377456641?t=7aM6LUAoHJoeoZTSXndmig&s=19
10. See threads here for more on scientists urging the abolition of perpetual economic growth:
https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1558860467937988612?t=7aM6LUAoHJoeoZTSXndmig&s=19
11. Only degrowth and climate justice might yet limit the damage and protect species and everyone.
Mass media?
Silent, of course.
Thread:
https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1251967492060258304?t=7aM6LUAoHJoeoZTSXndmig&s=19
12. 'Heat waves with levels of heat and humidity that exceed what humans can survive...could begin within as little as a few decades to strike regions of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh' and eastern China (from 2017). http://news.mit.edu/2017/deadly-heat-waves-could-hit-south-asia-century-0802
13. Corporate media can often provide vital information, however it will be framed in a certain way. No mention of the clear need for 'political and economic' systems change as urged by the IPCC in their AR6 report, the consensus position.
https://www.axios.com/2022/08/22/china-heat-wave-drought-unprecedented
14. Also see thread here:
https://twitter.com/DrTELS/status/1561761096486502402?t=usALK9JTBPEEQvAuzUX1cw&s=19